He showed up at my doorstep just after I had gotten home from work and rushed me to go out and watch the game at the sportsbar near the mall. I just h...d the chance to slip on my flip flops or I would have gone in my bare feet, that's how urgent he made everything. When we got there, his friends were gathered at the back corner table. So much for rushing there to get a table. Every movement I made was the focus of attention, but the guys wisely didn't say anything about my appearance. I mean the. "Of course you can see your legs. It's a dress! Do youlike it?"I looked at my reflection in the mirror, feeling distinctly foolish. Thedress looked all right, thanks to the shaping provided by the bra and thewaist cincher. It was me that was wrong. My balding head and hairy legslooked decidedly out of place. "The dress looks OK, but I look terrible,"I said, miserably."Don't worry, Charlie," Elaine said. "I told you, just leave everythingto Julie and me. Now, try on the next one."Elaine helped. Now, she felt like there was nothing left to work for, nothing left to wish for. She managed to doze fitfully, but when morning came, she was exhausted both physically and emotionally. She dragged herself up from her bed and went about stoking the fire out of habit. She put the coffee on to boil and had begun to make biscuits when Liam emerged from the tent. He gave her a long look, as if he were gauging her mood, before turning away to tend to the oxen. Selena ignored him and finished the. My girl child grew quickly. A little over a year later I knew that I was pregnant again. Who would marry a ten-year-old with two children? A woman usually married at ten or eleven or joined an existing family and took an inferior position. Sometimes the position was up to tenth. There was no way to get the seed I needed to strengthen my powers, to feel the world as it was meant to be felt.Finding a source of semen was more difficult each year. I was getting old and nobody but a pervert would.