Now it was in a rough pageboy and uneven as if she hadn't seen a hairdresser for months.The nurse, Sally Peters was installed in the room on the other...side. She appeared to be a competent nurse some years older than Neica and myself. "Your wife, I'm informed. Of course you are, you being Mr. and Mrs. Baker. She has had a rough time of it. Her sled was crossing a frozen river bed. I guess there was tree that was buried under a drift and one ski caught it. It went end for end and landed on her. Pinbu naangal oru purithaluku vanthom.Ippozhuthu naan prem vaayil en kuthiyai vaithu irunthen pinbu reshama avalin karupaana kuthiyil sunniyai vittu aval guthithu ooka aarambithaal. Ithil premku thaan athiga velai kuthiyaiyum naki thiravathai kudika vendrum pinbu kuthiyil sunniyai vittu ookavendrum. Naangal iruvarum kaamam seithukonde irunthom.Prem avanathu naakai en kuthiyil vitu vitu eduthaan athu matum illamal naangal reshma varuvatharku munbu thaan mater seithu kondu irunthom. Athanaal en. I've neverdone this before. But, rest assured, we've made great progress. Thesethings take time." How much time?" he asked. Grace tried to explain.She'd put him in that pink brassiere at the clinic over her ultimatum butthe sight of his male clothes and the offer of one thousand dollars towalk away from the whole deal was still on Tim's mind. But the point wasnearly moot now. Months of 'charm-school' lessons, months of hormones,laser electrolysis, facial feminization surgeries, breast. “That is new,” I joked as Elena, and I dressed.After breakfast, Elena borrowed one of the cars from the underground garage and headed home.Dad pulled me off to talk and said, “You appear to have shocked the hell out of the students in your AP Language class. Some parents aren’t happy, but what can they do about it? Their kids are all eighteen, or almost eighteen. People will find something to complain about.”School started the second semester on Monday. I was in the gym when asked to come to.