Patty ended up being two inches taller, and we were greatgirl friends. A couple of nights after Mom and I had outtalk, we were at dinner, Mom looked a... Dad, and saidsomething like, 'Go ahead and ask him.'"My Dad, said that he and Mom had a long talk the nightbefore. And, that she had told him that I preferred to looklike a girl, and live as a girl. Was this true? I told himthat I really preferred being a girl, and it felt right. Heasked the same question that Mom asked, did I want to becomea. Friday was was pure hell for Paul, due to one of the school's oldest andmost perverse traditions. Both Fridays during the initiation weeks werealso known as 'Underwear Day', where all the pledges showed up at schoolwearing only their underwear.Along with creme coloured satin bikini panties, Paul was made to wearstay up thigh-highs, three inch heels, and a very lacy bra. Shocked thatfor the first time he hadn't been given a training bra, but instead a brathat had rather large cups, Paul was even. He closed the door. Mick was still by the engine. He waved. It was too hot to walk fast or run.“You’re right. It’s awful and disgusting. What do you think I should do?”“Well, yer gonna write to the boss in Brisbane, right?” Henry nodded. “Waal, tell ‘im the shack or whatever jes’ won’ do. Yer goin’ up ter the bank? Ask the manager about buyin’ an’ buildin’. He’ll know what’s up in an’ aroun’ town.”“Good advice. I’ll be back in an hour.”Henry walked for 10 minutes to the imposing, two-storey. The pregnancy shattered her image of life on the street. Discovering she was pregnant, after three mornings of nausea in a row, she purchased a cheap home pregnancy test and followed the directions. Instead of fear, anger, or a fast trip to the abortion clinic, she found herself deliriously happy.“I’ve made a whole person,” she shouted to no one, in the stall of the diner’s ladies room. “I’m gonna be a momma!Determined to make changes, she checked on the local pregnancy crisis center, for help.