One piece at thetime of her grand puzzle."She offered me this opportunity, and I took it. Gladly. I embracedthe chance at living a normal life again. ... hope you can, too. Ofcourse, my transition didn't involve a gender change. I can't evenimagine what that's going to be like. But I'm here for you, Loren. I'mgoing to be here for you every step of the way."I stared straight ahead at a point somewhere in the distance, justover her left shoulder. Suddenly I was feeling more uncomfortable thanever.. The club owner had some girl he was trying to get next to, but his girlfriend was there to, so he asked me would I take his girlfriend home, so I told him you know I’m riding my motorcycle. He said, it would be okay because she like riding a motorcycle. She was about 35 I wasn't attracted to her. So I guess he didn't feel threatened by me taking her home, so we left, she lived about 25 miles away from the club, and so we got to her house, Come in and have some coffee I said okay. She asked me. Then he stood up and stepped out of the tub. I couldnt move. My body was so relaxed at that moment it refused to listen to my brain. As I began to get back to the point of having at least some control of my body, he reached in and lifted me out of the tub. I was still blindfolded but I could tell he was smiling that sexy little grin of his in amusement at my inabilty to speak or move simply from his touch. He dried me off some and leaned down into my ear again and said in that same sweet, deep,. Asad insisted that Andy begin eating. Mr. Ikamau and Mr. Tedros watched with great interest. Andy figured it was another rite of passage: see if the white boy can stomach real African food. Probably some kind of gross delicacy like musk ox intestine or broiled grubs, Andy thought. He poked around with his fork a little to find something that looked reasonably safe. Oh well, he thought, here goes nothing.He smiled at the black men and daintily ate a morsel. Within seconds the spicy food caused.