We had a mix of talents. A couple of men were engineers, or diesel operators. A couple were electricians and yet another man was boatswain. Boatswains...can navigate and take star sightings for location. I was trained as a torpedo man and the last was a cook-baker. We had a crew of sorts. It meant very hard work for all of us. In subs, we were cross trained in each job on the ship. In case someone got hurt, any of us could fill in temporarily. Now to get a ship. We pooled our money and traveled. Next there was Riane who lived just north of the river, it was said shehad a husband called Sam who had been an Office worker, he had changedhis name to Samantha and run off with a wealthy businessman called Johnat the end of 2013. She had had twins, shortly after Sam left her, onewas meant to be a boy and the other a girl but she insisted she wasbringing them up gender neutral and she dressed them both as girls.There were rumours that Megan had not been the first to feminise herboyfriend or. Eventually though Lily found one that was perfect. As Jamie carried it to the checkout Lily slowly crutched behind him, suddenly noticing the looks she was getting from people. She realized that this was what it would be like for real disabled people, having to make adaptions to things and getting looks from people. She found she was enjoying the attention but also that she was feeing guilty. They joined the line up and Lily was pleased when a couple of people let them go on in front of them.. She toddled over to me with one of the books she keeps here, and we’re going through the pages looking at animals. That’s entirely age-appropriate. That she’s trying to tell ME what’s on the page, a continuous stream of what MUST be a language, that part isn’t. She keeps looking at me to see if I’m getting all this.“Anyway,” Mom says, “we waited. We have news.”Okay. Mom says ‘news’. Mister Bill looks like the cat that ate the canary. I am now listening with rapt attention. My eyes darted.