Everyone had their one name; no surnames and most didn't even use the one they'd been brought up with. I've got to admit that once you entered our par...icular community full time, most folks kinda became estranged from their birth families.I think that was possibly a result of the sect mentality the guy who owned the place tried to promote.Starshine and I had been together for about a year when disaster struck the commune.Some visitor guy, who I vaguely knew, had given me a lift into town early. I thought why not a man? The look comfortable and easy to get into. So I had bought some for myself. They are the best thing to wear when going from the beach to your car.They were everything that I thought they would be. I wore them to the beach and when we went shopping. I did receive some inquisitive looks from some people. I did I did not care.My wife just rolled her eyes. When we went back the next year we took some friends who were a married couple. When he saw what I wore to the beach,. ”Jesse looked at Grant. “I was planning on asking for a week at Christmas if it wasn’t going to cause you a problem, Grant. I’ve been invited to Whistler for that week by my landlady.”“Oh ... Eve’s your landlady now, is she?” Sue giggled.“I don’t know what to call her,” Jesse admitted. “She acts a bit like my mother, but she’s not.”“Don’t worry about it, Jesse,” Sue said. “I’ll be happy to cover for you that week. That okay with you, Grant?”“That will be fine. That week isn’t terribly busy. But I mostly focussedon weightlifting to build muscle mass, increase my strength, and extendmy endurance. Now a new thought popped into my head. "I need to takegood care of my whole body so that I'll be able to safely carry a childand nurture it." Well, maybe the thought wasn't quite that explicit, butit amounted to the same. I started doing yoga and aerobics classes andI've been using the stationary bike a lot when I'm traveling. That wassomething new that I hadn't expected.I also started.