I started after her, but Mary stopped me."Let her go, Brent. She'll come around."I shook my head. "I don't think so. Not this time."We'd missed the da...n. We were telling our story to Newt Kennedy or Detective Moody when the sun peeked over the horizon to offer natural color to our visual senses. We'd missed the dawn and tai chi. Still, if there was ever a time I needed to find my center, now was that time.I tried. I made a valiant effort, but my center remained elusive. I couldn't even finish. JJ's bike could now easily be told apart from mine. Before, it was just the feathers. Now, all you had to do was look for the sidecar! We were all in shock.JJ got off the bike then helped Joy off. He came around in time to help Randy, Joy's son, climb carefully out. It was a fully-enclosed style but Randy still had a helmet on that needed to be unhooked from the intercom/music system hard-wired into it.We were all trying not to harass JJ too much until Joy came over and gave me a hug and had. " You don't have to apologize," my father said. "I'm the one who shouldapologize to you. I was a real ass to you when you were younger and I'mreal sorry for that." It's okay, Dad. You were just doing what you thought was best for me." No, I wasn't," my father said. "And thats why I need to apologize. Iknew from the start that you wanted to be female, but I did everything Icould think of to change your mind. I did the same thing to you that myfather did to me."I choked on my father's. . even if it was only from her brothers.[1980] Oh, he was so young, yet so handsome, she remembered. Slim, yet athletic, still to fully fill out, his voice deep and soft, yet occasionally wobbling into a falsetto if surprised. Truly a tempting young Adonis and that temptation had been building for several years as Mary’s libido remained high, whilst Bill’s began to wane. He’d been so much older than Mary when they married. Still, he had been a good man and yes, a good if unadventurous lover..