This was unfair; Suzanne would hear about it from me.I shook hands with Jocie and Brad and then turned to Carter. "Would you mind if I ask Alice to da...ce?" I saw his forehead wrinkle."You don't mind, do you Honey?" Alice said, already getting to her feet. I took her hand and lead her toward the dance floor without looking back at Carter.The Trio was back to playing jazz and there were several couples dancing.I think she wanted me to see the ring. I noticed it as she placed her left hand on my. “In a few days when things have settled down, I will hold a press conference to answer your questions. Thank you,” I added.What I did not say was the surgery was scheduled for tomorrow before the pieces had a chance to do any nerve damage. Doc Burns already had a specialist from John Hopkins to do the surgery tomorrow afternoon at 1400.After a tough night talking with the girls and family and then the muted pleasure of little boys and holding Takeo and Sara, I had a restless sleep.At 0700 I was. You were born into a peasant family. Your mother had died giving birth to you. It hit your father hard, so hard he gave you up. After being dropped off at the orphanage you were adopted by a noble family who thought they couldn’t bear children. Shortly after adopting you your ‘mother’ became pregnant and gave birth to twins, a boy(Lucien) and a girl(Harmony). After that they gave you to the servants of their estate to have you be trained as a housekeeper for them, but things didn’t go as. "Okay," Kathy said. "But that still doesn't explain why you have to looklike a girl." I probably don't anymore," I said. "I told Johnny's dad the truth whenwe made the demo. He said he'd submit the demo, but the likelihood of therecord company wanting my voice in a male talent was small, and he didn'twant to worry about pretending to have me be a girl."She nodded, along with Jane and Ashley. They seemed to have bought thelie. Now I just needed to think up a plausible excuse about why I wasgoing.