IX.I was getting ready to go back into the office for the first time as100% Charlotte when the phone started to ring. As I picked it up andsaid hello ... familiar voice was on the other end. It was my assistantKelly."Hello Charlotte and welcome to the sisterhood club in all its fun,trials and tribulations. How do you feel?" Thanks Kelly. I am feeling pretty good today and I am planning oncoming in to the office to see how things are going. It's so nice tohear your voice. Is there anything special. Your personal Nurse will tellyou when you can relieve any untoward arousal. And you must always sitdown to pee like other girls do. We don't want any firemen here wavingtheir hoses about. Is that all clear?" She looked around the room and weall nodded."OK," she continued. "We are now going to have our first group activity.It's all about learning the most basic rules about being ladylike. Aboutdoing things in a very different way from how boys do things. You willsee that there are a number of. Yes, by all means, Lena, try and find out if you are right. Then, I suppose, try to talk her out of it.’ Yes, I thought, that’s one option, but I don’t think that she’ll go for it. You don’t pine for a man for 9 years and then just put it behind you. I thought I knew what he was going to have to do and, I sensed, it would be difficult for him because of his feelings for her. We’d been talking for a long while now and I was feeling quite sexy as the water bubbled across my body so I moved over. Going intothe next room where more doctors and nurses were working.A young girl on the table. I see her step out of her body. The Lightabove us both. She goes upward, I linger. I look down at her form, shelooks so young, so wounded. I bend down and kiss her forehead. They applya shock to her chest.....I wake up shouting. A woman's voice beside me tries to comfort me. I feelher hand on my shoulder and say, "Mom?" Yes dear, I am here," she says. I look at her. I don't recognize her atall. I.