You call me, uh, er, 'Buddy', when I'm not Nicole, and I'll try not to do anything too stupid."."Uh, and how am I going to know when you're not Nicole..."."Gee! I haven't thought of everything yet. How do we let her know?" Taylor asked Nicole..'I don't know... How about if I wear a hair clip on my right side? Or a pin. Or--'."No clips! No pins! No jewelry! I didn't even wear an earring in my ear!"."Is that your answer??" Mrs. Getty asked. "When you're not wearing jewelry, you're, uh, this. They had to travel at the little one's pace, but the made a fine trip and made arrangements for the crews to change shifts every month.My wives were looking at me oddly. "What is the matter?" I asked them."Husband, you have lost weight. You look very thin," Sunshine said."You are not allowed to travel without one of us any more," Star said. They all nodded."I missed your good care and loving, my sweet wives," I admitted.I was tired so we went to sleep early that night. We all made love this. "It's a start," she said as she quickly paid for his styling."What do you mean, a start?" Tom whined.Michelle smiled. "We have a few stops yet to go," she said simply.The next stop, to Tom's horror, was the manicurist's chair in the salon.As the girls watched, encouraged, and giggled, Tom's nails weremanicured and short false nails were glued on and painted. When themanicurist finished, Tom's nails were about three eights of an inchlonger than when he'd started. And _that_ had been a battle;. ”“You’ll have a home healthcare worker stopping by every day for awhile, and we’ll be coming to you for therapy until your right leg improves enough for you to drive to us. You should be fine.”She touched me again, and I was relieved that I could still read her; unlike most other reasonably healthy people I’d “read” since my injury, her sexuality was not strong, not as apparent as most. ‘Dormant’ is the word that popped into my head, as if she’d repressed her needs and desires or intentionally.