Clean cut marks on the tape suggest that someone had used a knife to set her free rather than that she had managed to escape.The other odd thing that ...erry noticed was that there was no sign of any of Suzie's personal effects. Clothes, jewelry, everything that might have been thought hers was missing. All that had been left in the flat was furnishings and her work papers and computer."Good heavens," said Gerry, "do you think she's been abducted by terrorists? I didn't think that there was. "I was never a man, mom. I was a little guy who is nobody paid anyattention to. Now... now I'm getting attention from my colleagues. Andbefore you say it, when I say attention, I don't mean because of thedresses. I am getting the respect of my peers that I never got before.Not only that, I like myself better this way, mom. I'm not going back tobeing a being a nobody who wears little boys' suits to work. Look at me,mom, and tell me that I am a man in a dress."His mother ran her tongue over her. After two blocks, he turned left on 21st. She followed him, but stayed well behind him, always in the shadows. After a couple more blocks, on a street lined with narrow two-story apartment buildings, he turned out of view at a grey brick apartment building, his retreating form hidden by a wooden fence and a thick row of hedges. She darted forward to catch up, to see which apartment was his, and as she got up to the fence she flew around the corner and ran into — Ed McCarley! As she ran into him. "The pair thought Chris would be able to discretely collect royalties andno one would be the wiser. However, that first novel, 'Vendi Vedi VISA: ICame, I Saw, I Shopped!' became a national bestseller. Bookstores, radioshows, and fans everywhere wanted to get to know Christine Ericson."For the first book signing, we hired a model to sit in for me," relatesthe author. "But she was such a ditz, I was embarrassed to watch her.Besides, I was the one who wrote the book! This was my moment!"Kate,.