She said if there was a controller, she couldn’t raise her. Bron gave us a grin and called home. Magenta knew what he wanted and told him to give he... an hour. Sean said we could just leave the machine running as the canister could hold a lot, and the controller would beep if it needed changing.We decided it was ‘beer o’clock’ except I wasn’t allowed one, which made me grumble and the other blokes laugh. As we walked back, just because we could, David suddenly said, “I remember where I heard. I realizenow that I am the only one who hadn't taken it for real. Everyone elsedid, especially now that David and I were living together. David expectedme to live up to my commitment, taking and introducing me everywhere ashis fianc?. To all extent and purposes, my life had become that of awoman's. I live fulltime as a woman, behave as a woman, feeling like awoman. I was certainly trapped in a situation of my own making. On thegood side, despite a condition of enforced chastity, I now had. Les poup?es se vendaient vite. Mon invention partait comme des petitspains. Au fur et ? mesure que je voyais les autres bo?tes emport?es,l'espoir en moi grandissait. Bient?t, ce serait mon tour de trouver unacqu?reur. J'attendais avec la patience infinie d'un objet. C'?tait unpeu comme un march? aux esclaves, chaque visage pouvait ?tre celui de lapersonne qui allait d?cider de ma vie. Dans ma t?te de poup?e, je medemandais qui je voudrais comme ma?tre, ou bien comme ma?tresse... Etc'?tait bien. "Dismayed, I gave her the tiniest of nods. She nodded and then said to me in a firm voice: "I know you are one second away from doing something really stupid. You have to promise me something-and I'm telling you this as a pedestrian first, and your mother second: you are to use protection when you do. You are not to have intercourse with a boy without using a condom. You know what they are and what they're used for. If the boy doesn't have one with him, you say no. You kiss him, or you let him.