"Excellent," complimented Aunt Mary, "a little touch-up with the curlingiron and our little Chrissy will be perfect".Still facing away from the mirror... I sat quietly while Carolyn brushedand curled what was longish hair for a boy. After looking through asmall drawer in the dresser, Aunt Mary approached with two matchingsatin ribbons, the exact color of the dress. After tying each into apretty bow on either side of my head, both women smiled. Still beaming,they pulled me to my feet. "Don't look. " Let's say an hour then," she said.She knew a good local place and she chatted all though dinner like we had known each other forever."Your place local?" she asked over dessert."About an hour," I replied."No one there, is there? Wife, girlfriend, mother," she said with a giggle."No," I replied, for I had no one.I know I'm not ugly, it's just I'm no good with women."Good, then let's go," she said.The drive was made in almost complete silence. I glanced at her legs once when her airline skirt. Aunt Riley was getting by just fine without my help, and Jessie—You’re running away from it.—was better off without a useless brother like me. I selected “no” again.There was no third prompt.Since I didn’t have anywhere in particular to go, I walked aimlessly around my small coastal Florida town of Navarre taking pictures of whatever happened to catch my attention. I’d like to say they were the best pictures I’d ever taken. To say that before my death a miracle occurred and I captured my last. "There," I announced with some pride. "That end is in place."The fingers left my thigh and I felt relief as I stepped down to feel the floor firmly under my feet. Moving the ladder to the other side of the window I carefully moved up three steps and took the other end of the curtain rod from Julie's hand. Once again, I was greeted with her smile and the sight of her partly open bodice with the twin mounds it hid.Again, I reached up and felt both the legs of my shorts ridding higher and the.