* Chapter 7 A second patrol car arrived and soon they were taking statements from the three older women. Ken and Donny were loaded into the ambulance....Drake had not recovered consciousness yet and the EMT put in an IV. Consuela was adamant that she was going in with Ken, so Marcia agreed to take her. Marta was trying to convince the officers that they had no reason to take her pistol. She had not fired it and it was a legal weapon for defense. She was on the phone with her law firm as the. She was open and accepting of her gender so I needed to be as well. The sex was versatile and great and she hadn’t been on hormones for a long time.She had this routine for tucking her jewels when she was dressed up that I thought was so odd but I really liked her and just accepted it as part of living as a transgender. She had a thin elastic band that she wore around her waist under her panties that had a shorter piece of rubber tubing kinda like the stuff the doctor wraps around your arm when. Letterman, Leno and even the news. I didn't know how, but this TVwas definitely different. It was showing all the programs on it, withall the characters genders swapped. They were dressed up and acting likethat was perfectly normal, and if I didn't know better, or know the showsbefore, I might not have noticed. Definitely strange.I watched it for awhile, oddly fascinated with it. At work the next day,I saw the TV in the shop, and everything was normal. I was sure that itwas only my TV. Sorry. That wasn’t very fair. Some kinda man I turned out to be. Just a 58 year-old has-been without a future. Fuck, all married people lose a spouse. Eventually. Some sooner than others. Most everybody else seems to be able to cope. What’s wrong with me? God but it hurts. I glance up at the sky. Huge, dark cumulus clouds block the sun and promise yet another day of relentless rain. The ducks don’t mind at all but the threatening weather just adds to my despair. How fitting. Gun-metal gray day..