Me: So Miles, which way shall we go?Miles: If we go through the thicket we won't have to climb that fucking mountain. I vote to go through the thicket... There is no prize for being first.Me: I'm willing to give it a try, but I think we will regret it.It took fifteen minute to get to the thicket. There was no trail just a few bent wild bushes where someone else had been through. It hadn't been lately I knew. The bushes had recovered almost fully from being bent over.Miles: That is pretty thick. I think that if I had been here a little over two thousand years ago, Iwould have been a priestess of whatever religion existed here. The bigdifference though, is that I have been able to complete the change.I have enjoyed one part of this dig extra specially, I am doing no heavywork. I am still forbidden to do anything too strenuous.One thing that has really surprised me is swimming in the sea. I havealways found it too cold in the past. I tried it yesterday and it waspleasant. My body has. .." I understand Cathy, but you have to understand that when a girl wearsperfume she makes boys notice her! Is that what you want? To have Billnotice you?" I said nothing of course. "Being a girl is more than justwearing the clothes honey, and it's also more than a lifestyle. Theclothes help define us, but how we act is just as much, if not more, atrue reflection of ourselves. You wanted to become a girl, and I let youdo this for a while because you needed it, but now that you have boyscoming. “Afraid of what?”“Nothing, Mom…”“Nothing? Nothing my ass. I know my daughter, and something isn’t…”She never finished her sentence. The home pregnancy kit in my hands told the rest of the story. It was obvious she wasn’t pleased.I looked at her sheepishly and said, “I think I’ll go to the bathroom now.”Five minutes later, I walked out with a frown on my face.“Oh dear lord. You’re pregnant, aren’t you? Who’s the father?”Stephanie and I were stunned speechless.My mom continued, “Well?”“It’s.