Alas, sleep did not come easily until I realized what I should have known all along: Jeff wouldn't do that.Jeff had been right all along and, however ...riefly, I had been sucked in. It was well after midnight, but I called his cell. I was told to leave a message."Jeff, please call me. I'm so sorry I doubted you. We need to talk. Call anytime."I had done what I could. It enabled me to sleep.I woke at 10:00. Jeff hadn't called.Lunch time arrived. Jeff hadn't called.I didn't know what to do. I. And we’re gonna find out exactly HOW horny pregnant women are,” Bink laughed.“Scoot over,” Mandy demanded, pushing her butt sideways against Bink to sit on the pilothouse settee. Seated, she looked at me with those big blue eyes. “Now, Bink got to taste...”“Did NOT,” Bink said. “One little suck. No juice. Now...”Four days across the Gulf. “Piece a’ cake,” the girls say. It’s true, assuming that the weather cooperates. It did this time, one day and part of another of leaden, drippy skies and. No matter how many times we were told, people just didn’t get the fact that they wouldn’t be going to the same place as their friends. We were just given a boarding card with our bus number when we signed in and went straight to the bus.”“Geez. They really do their best to make it bad for you, don’t they?”“It seems that way at first, but I’ve adjusted. I only saw a couple of people I knew at the intake center, so I just figured I’d be alone. Not being able to talk to anyone back home and not. You want to wear a dress, fine; youwant to wear pants, that's also good. You want to dance ballet, you can.You want to play sports, well, that's fine too. I'm a guy. I don't havethat kind of freedom."Carlotta nodded as she stepped closer to Phillip. She clasped his handsin hers and said, "I know that, Fanny. However, you can't live yourwhole life trying to do what you think is expected of you. You have tobe yourself. What do you have to lose?" Come on, Carlotta. You know full well. Anyone who.