’ Marcus leaned to whisper devilishly in her ear, ‘You can always make them take it back.’ Shaking her head, she said softly. ‘No. This is per...ect.’ Hadley chose to sip the glass of wine instead of dipping a spoon in the table’s shared white chocolate panna cotta. Felicia was savoring the pomegranate flavoring before she spoke. ‘Hadley, did Marcus ever tell you about his grandfather?’ They had talked about their families before and she remembered him briefly saying his grandfather was an. . !!Judging her sufficiently clean, I helped her stand and reached for the shampoo, it was fast becoming a ‘thing’ between us, washing each others hair, bonding, maybe dog girls take on certain canine traits? Washed and rinsed I left Sue to drip whilst I grabbed a couple of big towels, we needed to get mostly dry before we could start with the hair driers and serious primping. Not that either of us were regular makeup users, but us dog girls like to look well groomed.Whilst Sue finished. ..a...real girl?" Oh, don't worry so much," Maria laughed, but I noticed she avoided promising to keep my gender a secret from the guests. "Here is a purse. All girls carry purses, you know. You would feel lost without one! I put some things in it for you, like mascara and lipstick, just in case you need to touch up later." She handed me a small white purse and showed me how to set its long strap on my shoulder."Now," she said after coaching me for a minute or two, "I'll go out and knock on the. I looked at the cover of the book before I opened it. ’World History’ it read in big gold letters. Below that were pictures of people from other nations, scenes of battles and Mount Rushmore. For moment, I reminisced about the family vacation we took a very long time ago. I forgot most of it; I was very young at the time. I remembered standing next to my brother as we gazed at the monument. The stone heads towered over us like skyscrapers. I had the feeling in my stomach as if they were going.