“We just came from Janet’s office where she did a procedure that implanted my egg mixed with Dan’s sperm in one fallopian tube and Karen’s egg...with Dan’s sperm into my other tube. Now comes the waiting, again!” she sighed.“I can understand your anxiousness to be pregnant. I’ll hope for the best for you. How are you feeling Karen?”“I think I feel just as nervous and excited as Wendy as if it was happening to me.”“That’s good to hear you’re experiencing the same emotions because this is your. .. me...” I said slowly.“I heard that. But why?” Chloe asked me.I rubbed my eyes.“Just what I wanted on my birthday, to be explaining to my older sister how my mother tries to kill me in 15 years or so.” I said sarcastically.“Just tell me, you ass.” Chloe said.I looked over at her. My eighteen year old sister. I thought back to myself. Maybe I was being too harsh towards them. I mean, I remember what Chloe was like when she was eighteen. Even though she could be a bitch, she could be cool. I. Last week I went to a new young woman who had recently opened a salon in my area so thoughI would give her a go.It was late afternoon when I went to book in but beside being gorgeous had a great body.After staring at her she asked did I want a cut - at that time was thinking of a fuck.Ah Ah yes but thought I had to make an appointment.'I was about to close up but think I could take one more" she said pointing to the chair.I sat down and she put the robe over my shoulders and my hands which were. "It's almost like I'm there."I gave him a mock glare. "It gets better." So tell me, then," he said, settling back into his seat.And so I did. I told him about River Valley and about growing upthere, about the cottages by the lakeside at the deepest point in thevalley, and how beautifully the sun glimmered off the water duringthose long summer evenings, and how I loved to walk along the riverwith the grass tickling my bare legs and the wind breathing through alight summer dress. I told him.