"Cousin Mints!" Nev cries out in surprise, as she identifies the man."Well damn girl, we gave you up for dead." Cousin Mints says. He looks us over bu... doesn't lower the shotgun that is pointed at us. "But who have you got with you?"Alys starts to cry at the sight of the strange man. Catherine shoots me a scathing look of why didn't you say something, as she and Brin leap to their feet and take aggressive stances. I throw my hands up in disgust."Catherine you deal, try not to hurt the cousin.". "I gave her a little kiss. "Maybe that's part of it. You want it too much. It's too important to you. Relax. Enjoy what we have. Play along if you want, but only what you want to do."She nodded. "It doesn't hurt, does it?"Sandy answered. "No, sugar. Just the opposite. It doesn't hurt at all, unless I take him too deep at the beginning. I need to get used to it a little, because he does reach the back and that can be a bit uncomfortable." She giggled. "Luckily, our little pussies seem to adapt.. We talked about 'The Danish Girl,' and the times the writers ran from thetruth. We talked about our favorite TG movies: mine was Boy Meets Girl,hers was Carla. We talked about Trump and his silly wall. We talked aboutthe women's soccer team. We talked about Dumbo, and whether he could bepresident. We talked about Springsteen's new CD.I found that I didn't think of Vanessa as a trans woman. She was just awoman. She was my friend. She was smart, and she had a good laugh, andshe was pretty enough. ‘Harry has a point. With larger runs we ought to be able to milk greater efficiency. Our costings are actually based on normal production runs. We could increase the size of runs and persuade suppliers of raw materials and fittings to hold their billings on that additional output until we actually move the product, thereby substantially reducing our holding costs. Storage space is available.’ ‘Galvin and Harry, you guys are brilliant,’ Lenny said. ‘Flanna and Harry, we fly to Chicago at midday.