It was a point of letting go, a point of complete surrender to let pain and muscles cramp however they wanted. I let the puke and diarrhea come out of...either end however it wanted. My head was resting in ocean water vomit without a care. Wet shit caressed my inner thighs as it left. I didn’t care anymore. There was a peace. In that darkest moment, I could feel a kernel of my body healing. That kernel signaled my brain that I was getting better. I focused on that. I let that grow like a seed.. I woke in the morning, and I hiked up my nightgown as I sat to urinate.I reached for my panties and a bra. I put on my makeup. And it was allroutine by now. That scored me most of all.When I took tie to think about my plight, I still wanted to scream. Buteveryone related to me was a woman now ? my wife, my children, my in-laws, my co-workers. I was seeing doctors while en femme. I was goingto the grocery store. I picked up the kids from school ? all dressed asa woman. It felt like life now. It. Then came Susan in a white silk sari holding on to the arm of Ashar Khan in his full robes of state. David’s heart leapt at the sight of her. She looked so beautiful as she smiled shyly at him. The ceremony got under way, but to David it was a blur. He was conscious only of the girl at his side that had consented to be his wife.Later, at the wedding breakfast, Ashar Khan gave a speech about the honour of standing in for Susan’s father. The Prince followed with his own story recounting how he. " She said."Whats it like Coral? Having all that time to decide what to do?" I asked thinking I wouldn't mind it.She got a far away look."Well it depends, we have some career choices, we have free enterprise here and we earn credits we can use for goods, but the thing is we can live as long as we want, we have all the time to accumulate the things we desire, my mother and father are original villagers like the Governor, that generation was all about defense of this world and the universe." She.