"Mom drummed her fingernails on her knee, which usually meant she wasthinking hard about something. "Well, being able to reverse theprocedure does mak... a difference. Let me think about it. Maybe it couldbe a birthday present or something." But ... but I'll already be in school by then and I'll be the only onewho ain't a girl!" Is everyone at your school becoming a girl?" Well, no, but all my friends have. It's been so hard spending thesummer with them as the only boy." Have they been teasing. " Do you like him mum?" Of course I do," she giggled. "He's not much older than me and I think he's a lovely chap." Well what are you waiting for?" I grinned in spite of what I felt, "Go for it mum." What if he asks me to stay?"I smiled in exasperation, "Mum, do you accept that I love you?"She nodded."Do you accept that I'm not your bloody captor, your boss or your bloody father?"She started to laugh as she nodded."Well then for God's sake go and have a drink with the man and at the end of the. " he shook his head and corrected, "You drive carefully Paul, and call me when you find out how your wife is."Muffin was thrown to the floor in the room with the three girls. Jessie left her little sister as she rushed to help Muffin out of the floor and to one of the four beds in the room. "Are you ok?"All Muffin could do in reply was to groan. Jessie appealed to Sissy, "Help me get her off the floor." Let her stay. I didn't put her there. She's nothing to me." You are so mean. Annie, help me. Sorry about the brief tangent. Apparently I still have strong feelings about that, even though I was unequivocally wrong in that situation. I think I just have lots of feelings about lots of things right now, and I don't know where any of them are coming from except missing you.I guess it's just that this whole thing is so much. I need you a lot. I miss you so much that it's making me frantic. At least I'm using some of that energy to get a lot done at work. I'm learning all the.