We left to go to the hospital; this was first time I was dressed as a girlwhen I was outdoors. I wore a long faux fur coat and a pretty pink and white...nitted hat.James broke into smiles when he saw me and now that I was dressed in my truegender I went over to him and kissed him on the lips.James said, "That was so nice, Chris." Chrissy," Mommy corrected him.James said, "I will have to get used to calling you by your new name Chrissy,is my new big sister give me another lovely bed bath?" Yes. Your mama and your dad are not really your biological parents. They are only "fosters" who got to keep you when your mom wound up MIA in the Army overseas."Sal was truly shocked. This was not what he had expected. It was something he kind of always felt a distinct possibility in the back of his head but figured it was just his overactive imagination. Now that he heard the dreaded words in the flesh, it made a lot of sense to him. If Gina was "not really" his aunt, it was entirely possible that. ”Putting his arm around Bett’s waist, Tommy pulled her close. “Then, Bill and I would have agreed.”“There are two bedrooms back there,” she said, pointing. “Sometimes our guests celebrated a little too much, and the rooms were added so that they could sleep it off. And, of course, sometimes our guests got a little overly amorous, and Bill would tell them to ‘get a room.’ And then he’d send them to a bedroom.”“This is an amazing place,” Tommy said with awe.“Let’s go see the upstairs,” Betts said. As he inhaled air in great breaths he felt hisheart hammering in his chest. He watched as the roots that had nearlytripped them were slowly extending from the earth and waving and flowingin their direction."Go!" Singh croaked. "Get to the car!"About fifty meters ahead of them was a house without a back fence. Thethree men dashed and stumbled and skittered through the overgrown lawnof the back yard as they streaked toward the refuge of the street aheadof them. When they stumbled onto the cracked.