What a party this turned out to be. I discovered that I like to dress as a girl, and I'm not only good at it, I would have no shortage of dates if I w...nted them! The next day I wore my own clothes, afraid to become Linda again. I might not have the strength to give it up if I did. Mom said nothing when she saw me. All day I drifted through the house like an aimless housefly, trying to settle down but could not. I kept thinking of the way I felt when Greg kissed me, and wondered why I wasn't. .I’d….I'd be your personal servant!" Ava scoffed crossing her arms across her chest. "But unfortunately for you that's never ever going to happen in a million-" The rest of her sentence was cut off in stunned silence as I pulled Jo close to me and kissed her hard. Jo's eyes nearly bugged out of her head, either from the surprise that we were kissing in front of someone, or because I was kissing her with enough force to crush a car, and began to slap her hand against my chest in protest. But I. “OK, I want more,” I said. “I want to know all about him, what you plan to do with him, and then afterwards I want to know everything you did with him.” My enthusiasm seemed to please her, or maybe she was just relieved.“What decided me, I guess, was when I talked to Rose about him.” I knew Rose as her wild workmate. Rose was young and attractive, talked about everything she did, and she did a lot. She had kissed and told many times and her exploits were legendary at Amy’s office. “Rose slept. Clair. Anyways they got a cook there named Cass Morrison whose food reminds me o' Melody Talon's." I nodded for him to continue. "Well sir?to make a long story short Miss Talon rode with us when we lit a shuck outta that frozen waste and rode down through what is now the Pike National Forest and on into Denver. A few months later I married her and we were very happy right up until her death back in '98. The only shadow on our marriage was that my dear Melody was unable to have children?but we.