Janet listened as Olivia asked all of the questions that she desperately was searching answers to. Answers, which could not possibly provide the repri...ve Olivia was in search of. Olivia had turned down every invitation extended to her 'to get out and have some fun' for almost one year. When she finally agreed to attend a party at Janet's home, her friend was ecstatic. Slowly, Olivia began to show signs of healing. She began wearing makeup again. She asked Janet if she would accompany her to. They were too polite to use any of the popular terms of abuse for a woman with a regular husband. Even so he guessed that Fara would be aware of his circumstances. He wouldn’t be surprised if she and her friends in New Opportunity had a good laugh at his expense. “Can you imagine? Married? Yeukk!” he thought of her saying.“Good evening, Mister Higgs,” she said as she drew level with him.Was the “Mister” sarcastic? Stephen wasn’t sure, but he just nodded in acknowledgement as she went by. He was. I stammered as I came up with the best story I could that I lost a bet and had to go out of the house dressed for losing the bet. He did not buy my story and asked me if I was gay. Remember this is a small town, and like most of America they believed that only gay men crossdressed. It seems that a lot of people still think cross dressers are gay to this day. although I denied the accusation, he still assumed that I was gay and further concluded that the reason I was out there at night dressed. It was that perfect kind of a day on the Eastern Coast of the US, not too hot, not too damp, just a slight breeze. Perfect. Too bad we only got one or two of those days a year, if that.I thought hard about what Luci had told me and added a bit of my own information to the mix. Gertie was going to be pissed or she should have been. That puzzled me. I was her favorite guinea pig and had all kinds of special elixirs and potions poured into me over the years, some with permanent effects. I was a.