"We'llspend this first day in the hotel room. We'll get your legs shaved, andyour arms if you want, I'll teach you anything you want to know about how...o pass as a woman, then tomorrow, if you feel up to it, we'll go out andexplore Paris as mother and daughter. Deal?" D- deal," Robbie said with a smile. "But..." But...?" Robbie's mother asked."I- umm, you can't call me, you know, 'Robbie' when my face looks likethis, right?" Robbie asked."Well-no, I suppose I can't," Robbie's mother mused. "We. I mean, that is if you think you’d want to go out with me.”“I’d love to. I can’t believe you don’t have a steady girl. You’re so tall, and good looking, plus you have a beautiful car ... girls usually go for guys like you.”“Well, I work for Dad and Gramps a lot, and I’ve always been too shy to ask a girl out.”“You sure don’t look, or even act shy now - but I’m really glad you asked me out. I’ll talk Martha into letting me see you, maybe we can just be be friends at first, and she’ll let. I liked having a younger sister around. He was betterbehaved when he was Allison, but I thought it had to stop. Allison wastaking over and Malcolm was being shoved out of the picture. Malcolm hadnot been around for weeks.I told her about Malcolm and Bobby kissing. She waved it off and said itwas just a phase; he would get over it soon."Just a phase," I screamed at her. "He is turning into a girl. He isgoing out with a boy, and they are kissing each other. It is not right.Have you looked in his. .My home life was OK, but that was about it - just OK. My parents werestrict, but not overly protective. They were quite happy for me to stayover at a mate's place rather than risk drinking and driving, althoughin truth I think the real reason was that my dad had to be up early, andI could never sneak in even without a drink without him waking up. Andwhen I woke him up, he got mad, so it got to the stage when I would stayover at Mitch's not because I'd been drinking, but because we had.