Youare one hot mess."After a long pause, she continued. "Do you remember how you agreed to dowhatever it takes to work here at The Women's Place?"I re...lied that I did recall that, though I wasn't sure what that allmeant. Ma'am added, "Frankly, the first step in keeping your job isfinding you a new name and changing that voice of yours, a deep masculinevoice that doesn't match your mannerisms at all. To work here you aregoing to have to be someone different. You are going to have to be awoman,. Aunt Karen, though, was bright and cheery, acting as if nothing had happened. The young man couldn’t understand how she did it. Kim kept giving Tommy looks he couldn’t interpret. It bothered him a little, but she’d been looking at him like that ever since she got home from college, so he wasn’t too worried although he would have liked to know what his cousin was thinking. ‘I’ve got to go shopping and run some errands,’ Aunt Karen said as she sat down at the table. ‘What are you two going to do. The third boy, chubby and eating a candy bar, nods. “I forgot my bag at school. I’m just planning to take the F’s on Monday.” Tad tells the other two with confidence.The three boys were nineteen, and fed up with all the rules and expectations hoisted upon them. Their first year of college was off to a crummy start.They sit on a couple large grave stones joking about the substitute in gym.“Man, why can’t we just be free of all this?” Chad moans later. Standing up to head home.“What if you. Rubbing a forefinger over my chin bristles, I mused: Just when will Veronica be ready to make love again? I took a hearty slug of beer and, once more, pondered on this strange, ongoing situation. I tried to make sense of the puzzle, reflecting on what had happened over the past year. Or not happened… For six months after the birth of the twins, I had been caring, supportive and patient. I knew that Veronica had her hands full with the babies and needed all her rest and strength to cope with the.