And she had selected her king.How long she would choose him to be her king she didn’t know. It could be two weeks, it could be two decades.And it wo...ld be her choice, and her choice alone that drove that - not some bullshit compliance to someone else’s cultural agenda. She was over pleasing other people and keeping the peace.And, she had no idea what she was going to do about her old life, and her husband, in Sydney, but whatever happened Stephanie would forge a new path from hereon and. Seeing me how I see myself. We have talked about this a little, but in a different way.”Abbie pauses now before she goes on. She is not sure the right words to say, “Tim, you seeing me and accepting me as a woman has meant the world to me. To know that is how you see me, not just someone playing the role. But others might not be so willing to accept my choices of identity.“You have viewed me, us, and how things are in a very remarkable way. But we have not been out in general crowds to. Then she was crying, again, sobbing into Frank’s shoulder, missing her youngest daughter all over, again.‘Well, you did it again, you big dumb idiot... ‘ Frank thought to himself. After a few moments, he picked Tanya up and carried her into the bedroom. He lay next to her, holding her while she cried herself to sleep.After a while, he fell asleep holding her in his arms, his own eyes leaking from the misery their lives had become. ‘Go to Béla. She will help your life-mate to get past her grief,. On the bright side, I kind of had a baby face; I managed to fit in with most of the 18-24 crowd, mostly surprising them when I revealed my actual age.My mother was Italian, and I'd picked up enough of the language from her and from my uncle to coast through the basic levels of Italian, but in order to finish my language requirements, I had to take the advanced levels. Mom had died before the family could visit Italy, and they say immersion is the best way to learn a new language, so I decided.