.." Aw, ferchrissake, Mary. Can't you do better than that? Shit, you can borrow mine if you want." No, I can get my own... Cath, this is so sudden!" S...? We going to have a hens' night? Let me know?" They still have those?" Don't care, we're going to have one. I'm coming to dinner with you tonight. Tell Jake to cook up something really nice. I want to check out this ring." I worry about you sometimes," laughed Mary."I worry about you all the time. See you tonight!" Honey!" she yelled for Jake,. She wanted to laugh when she heard his voice until she heard the stones of years rolling like thunder though his words, then they held her – like stars in trees, frozen in amber. ‘I heard a… a sound.’ ‘A sound.’ Not a question… a statement. ‘A strange sound, like rustling leaves, only metal.’ ‘Chains,’ the old man said. ‘You have heard my chains.’ ‘Chains! Yes, that’s it. Chains. Did you hear them, too?’ Clouds passed over his eyes, but still they held her. ‘You must leave this place,’ he said. Many of us want our cars to be real somehow, and be fond of us, and all that mush. And for this one shining moment all that has been true for me. Most people never have a moment like this, and I was at least smart enough to recognize it while it was happening. This way I was able to enjoy it in the present.Sally gave me my bittersweet moment to savor before saying, "Unless you're planning to walk, you really should hop in."She emphasized her words by popping open her passenger-side door — which. Still, it took time and a lot of talks with Jen and Sandy to come to terms with me finally looking past my denial of fact, as to who and what I really saw myself as.There were a lot of little baby steps taken, the plucking of eyebrows, the wearing of small amounts of lipstick or eye shadow, getting my ears pierced, to finally the day I wore a bra and breast forms and went out with them dressed enfemme and butch, in a woman's business suit and a blouse.Later, I became a "certified lez" (and the.