As I watched, they placed the two chairs facing each other and then tied their front legs together so that it almost made a bench with chair backs at ...ither end.Santa led me over to stand behind the chairs. Without a word, the elves each took a length of ribbon and fastened my ankles wide to the outside of the chair legs. With a hand on my back, Santa pushed my torso forward and I found that the back of the chair was the perfect height for keeping my lower body straight. The elves, once. "Todd knew what to do, he called the Bureau of Vital Statistics for VA andtold them what was needed. The clerk looked it up and Todd told themthat I was unsure of the spelling of my mother's name and he told themthe name I had, and did it sound like the name listed, it did, and I gotthe name. Todd helped me send in a request for a copy of my birthcertificate, the fee was $9. He asked to have it sent express, it shouldbe here in two days.I thanked him for his help and said, "Can I give you a. You turned to me, a smile beginning to play at the edges of your lips as your fingers slowly moved up, grazing my skin, feeling the heat that was rolling off me in waves. They stuttered when they reached where the barrier should be, searching along the length for the small scrap of cloth waiting to be pushed aside. Little did you know, the first thing I had done after I’d noticed you in the crowd was remove my panties in the bathroom.I saw your eyes widen in surprise, a full grin breaking out. "Maybe you should try living instead?" I can't live. I can't be the girl I think I am. I can't survive as theboy everyone thinks I am. I ... what's the use." I stood up, and tookhold of the railing that was the only thing separating me from a fallinto the river below."There's plenty of use, hon," the policewomen said."What use?" I cried."How old are you?" Nine ... Nineteen." The use is what might happen when you're twenty. Or forty, or sixty, orhowever long your lifespan turns out to be. There.