?Happy Thanksgiving,? he said before turning to go. Halfway down theporch stairs, he turned once more and said at last,?Good Luck, Daniel.? Daniel had...his head down, and he raised it torespond, but the man was already gone. He walked back into the house,nudged several times by the dog.?I don?t know what it is, Mitzi?Let?s sit down and open it, shall we??The dog tilted her head to one side as if she was considering thesuggestion. Daniel walked back to the couch and sat down. Moments laterhe held. I wanted Aimee to refuse to give me back my collar.As I walked toward my bedroom, I could hear them in the closet chattering on about how lovely the clothes were. Then I heard Lily say “Mistress I love this one, do you approve?”I heard Aimee reply “oh my god, the Master will not be able to take his eyes of you in that. Let’s find one for me.” They both erupted with girlish giggles. I couldn’t help but smile to myself. All we need is to add Natalie to our little party tonight.One thing I knew, I. Carolyn Martin said. ‘I suspect you’ll go silent again. Pain seems to be elevated to something almost honorable when it’s called ‘suffering.’ Suffering is something you can hold on to when everything else is missing and it’s something you get to do quietly. I’ve never been through what you’re going through and I won’t pretend to. But everyone, sometime in their life, feels pain or suffers in ways that YOU couldn’t imagine. You’re different Pat. Everyone knows that. But being different alone. And then whywould they lie? I believe now that my brother was a female soul born into abody that was male. While he was alive, he was a man and miserable. Butnow in death I believe she has finally been freed of her false male exteriorand her soul is now free to be happy and to be the woman she truly was meantto be." "That's a beautiful sentiment." "It came about only after hours of hard soul searching." "Did you ever see Michelle perform?" "I was too young to go to clubs when she first started.