"The conversation was just as deep up in Nikki's room. Sam couldn'tunderstand why Nicole passed on being a boy... and vice versa. But thenSam told Nic...le something that really through her off guard."You don't mind if I tell you something, do ya?" Sam asked."Well, no?" Nikki said."I think you're very pretty, one of the prettiest girls I know," Samreplied."Why Sam, that's very sweet!" Nikki said.But then Nikki got serious."Do people make fun of you...I mean for wanting to be a boy?" Sometimes. Planner does your destiny include bringing your Mother her pills and a cup of tea in my room."I have brought her a hot cup of tea to her bedside every night since I moved back home a few years ago when dad died and I left my wife of 10 years. " All right sweet heart get out of that chair and give your mom a hug and a kiss goodnight." I am a foot taller then mom but we both have the same size inseam at 30". This means that when I hug my mom standing toe to toe, our pelvises line up 2 1/2 above. My dad looked at me for a second and turned back and said "tell me the truth son" I took a deep breath and said "I need to get away from everything from Harvey from Edvard from the pain and just from everything" I started crying but just a little bit my dad said to me "don't get upset my darling. go away and have some fun with your friends and come back thinking a bit clearer" so we got on the plane and landed safety in Australia when we got though customs and all the other security stuff we. ”“It’s still a work in progress,” Kara added.“What house isn’t?”“The only big change was adding a bathroom upstairs,” Adam said.“Mind if I take a look?”The three headed upstairs and Peter looked into the new bath. “So, you’ve gone from four bedrooms, one bath to four bedrooms, two baths. Remind me what you paid for the place.”“One hundred,” Adam replied, “and we put in about seventy in upgrades -- mainly infrastructure, plus the new bath.”“So, you’re all-in for one-seventy. It would easily.