" That's probably true," I said, but the way he said it rubbed me thewrong way. Leonard was sleepy and easier to read than usual. On somelevel, he did...'t respect men who wanted to become women, and, as far ashe knew, that meant me -- or maybe it was even simpler than that: itwas possible that he didn't respect women. My intended also let slipthat, to him, being pure Elowin trumped being a half-breed. It wouldexplain his sense of superiority, which I'd felt on occasion. It wasn'tquite contempt,. Eight Years Later... "Tay, you need to calm down, you already have a career, and this is not going to make or break you" Jessica told Taylor as she helped her set up the new store display."This will help continue my career or it will send it down the toilet." Taylor replied as she stared at her friend."You worry over nothing, this will be fun" Yea, it's always fun to have a celebrity in the area, but it is not fun when he is coming to my store! Everything needs to be perfect." Tay announced as. Judy followed me in her car so I could get a ride home. That was the first time since I got my license that I didn't drive.Back home we called a family meeting to decide what we were going to do since we were all one family. Judy's house was too small for the five of us so we decided to move her and Sandy into my house. I had to get used to calling it our house from that point on. Ok then, so doing the math we had four bedrooms and five people. Somebody had to double up. Wait, what was I. I had cleaned out our driveway twice now so mom could get in when she got out of work. Ann had just got home from school and was almost an hour later than normal. She said the roads were horrible and the snow plows were having trouble keeping up with all the snow.Mom usually gets home around 5p.m. and it was now 6 and I was begining to worry. I was watching the news when the door flew open and mom crashed through the door. She was covered in snow as she shivered and shook closing the door.