." Her unexpected presence derailed coherent thought and her lips curled slightly at the sight of me reduced to a stuttering mess. I took a breath and...started again. "How did you find me?" The question popped out of my mouth like one of those air driven bingo ball machines. There were so many questions; it could have been any one of them."You gave me a detective agency, I had to do something with it," she grinned at me, "they're really very good, especially when they're searching for someone. The Backseat Grab July 1953Vic wouldn't say they forced Irene Lepicki to do anything bad because she willingly got into the car with both him and Eddie Rooney. It was July 1953 and the three of them were sitting on the front stoop talking about nothing in particular. Even though she was just thirteen, Irene had a real nice body for someone so young. She didn't have real big tits or anything like that, but she sure was curvy in just the right places and she had those real nice legs. She. She says she’ll die without him.” I told her that RALPH was going to die if I had to live with him one more month. Jill pestered. She was OCD about protecting her sister. So, WE moved out, instead.We bought a house. It was a neat little bungalow. I was making decent money and we could have afforded better. But I still had to pay the rent on the apartment. It seems that neither Ralph, nor Willy could handle the uplift. At least Willy worked. It was a minimum wage job, cleaning houses. But her. "Suddenly, I felt very uncomfortable and I think he sensed it, because helooked away and took a long pull on his Guinness.I faltered as I tried to find the right words. "I... Umm... I... I don?tthink I?m going to have the reassignment surgery, Doctor... Umm... Dad.At least not to my genitals," God I felt so awkward talking to Mitch?sdad about these things. "So..."He put down his stout glass and took my hand in his. "Donnie... you needcounseling. You can?t just go along as if nothing has.