“Yes.”“There’s always Dale...” I smirked.“No chance. And it’s not like with you and me. I was never, ever attracted to Dale. And his vie... of women...”“Has changed now that he finally got what he’s been trying to get since we were fourteen. I talked to him a couple of weeks ago and he’s really calmed down. He’s focused on his studies and he has a steady girlfriend. He also quit drinking.”“So he’s grown up a bit; that’s good. You have, too.”“I have a long way to go,” I sighed. “What do I do about. The hunter had taught him to set traps and to shoot the bow and arrow when he was still a youngster. Since then he had assumed that he would have to make a bow and arrow of his own and that he would shoot the dragon in one of the two vital spots the hunter had described for most animals: the neck just behind the back of the skull, or the heart. Now the neck of a dragon could be armored. In that case he would have to shoot for the heart. Steven was not precisely certain where the heart was, not. It then hit me. Did hejust say several procedures? "What...what else did you do to me?" Dr. Freiberg looked at Lena, who nodded. "I'll tell her, doctor, afterall, it was my idea." I glared at Lena, as a feeling of dread filled the pit of my stomach."Tell me what? What else did he do to me...besides give me breasts?" "He performed an orchiectomy on you," she stated in a very matter-of-fact way."A what?" I asked as I searched my mind for the definition. "It means he castrated you. Your tesicles. Jerky Jim would plop his lazy ass down on these Saturdays and yell for Karen to get him a beer, or more snacks. He must have had a huge bladder cause I never saw him get up to go to the can once in all the times I was over there. He was on the couch when I got there and on it when I left. I started getting my own beer from the 12 pack I brought along with the flowers. When I did Karen would jump up and come after me saying, "Wait Doug, let me get that for you."I just smiled at her and dropped.