Deirdre wouldn't be back from school before four p.m. on a Wednesday, and Maureen not before six. She had it covered.Tuesday morning at ten, Maureen l...d her three visitors into the conference room where Dennis Alvarado was waiting. The Montalbans were everything she had heard of. The Mara Salvatrucha tattoes showed on their bulging arms, chests and necks which were not covered by the muscle shirts both wore. Their heads were shaven and covered with tattoos as well. Most of all, the burning,. ’ I said, excusing myself. I went to the ladies’ room to answer my call. Derek told me that he’ll be working very late this week and for the next three weeks and then a business trip to a convention in Atlanta after the three weeks. Then, I asked him about going on a ‘date night’ with dinner, dancing, and romance. But he said he would be all tired and suggested we have a ‘date night’ at another time. I told him I got plans before hanging up. I told my mom the same thing and she said she and her. ?” Alarmed, he swung his head back and forth, staring open-mouthed at his feminized reflection. His eyes were rounder and his lips thicker, his cheekbones more pronounced, his nose thinner and his chin narrower. He gawped at an older version of his sister Madeleine.“This is impossible!” he cried. “I don’t look like this! I’m not a girl! How can I be a girl?” He laughed, nearly hysterical with confusion. Was he always a girl? Had his mind just snapped tonight as he’d been raped?“No!” he choked,. . I got it anyway. It took a long time for me to realize it. Maybe because it's different from what I expected it to be like, but I got my happy ending.I thunder down the city's street with the windows rolled all the way down and the stereo rousing late sleepers. I turn my eyes from the road for a Pico-second to check the passenger in the baby seat attached to my Mustang's tiny rear seat. My now two year old daughter is smiling and giggling. I give her a thumbs-up sign and she responds by.