It was MY day and my way!Big hugs from Karen and a "See you at the church!" and we were off forthe next act of my big production.We got back home at t...n, with an hour to finish getting into bride mode.I know what you're thinking - did she manage to lose enough around herwaist? To improve my chances, all I'd put into myself that morning washalf a glass of water, and before dressing I stripped completely andstepped onto the scale in my bathroom. Crap - still a pound short of mygoal. 'Hmm,' I. I completely lost my confidence. I was always shy, but now I just kept to myself. I was noticing girls, but I couldn't put two words together into a sentence when I was around them.Things started to turn around for me when I turned fourteen in February of that year. I had been active in Boy Scouts for three years and loved it. I was old enough to join the Venturer Crew and go camping with the older scouts. Their acceptance and support helped me start to get my confidence back.I signed up to go. . well, not yet, that remained to be seen. I was however picking up occasional echoes of something else, though every attempt to scan it failed due to there being nothing there to scan. Still being naturally paranoid under such circumstances I wasn’t taking anything for granted and wasn’t just keeping an eye out for Oonagh.I finally reached the area where Oonagh had been and observed it from a distance, using the chameleonesque aspects of my armour to blend me into my surroundings. Yes, she had. For example, I knew she was pregnant with her third before her husband did, and she knew before my wife that I was going to get a vasectomy. I told Mad about finding out my wife was cheating on me and it was Mad who, knowing how much I loved my wife, advised me to play it cool and see if it was just a phase that Peg was going through. She was right; after a couple of months Peg ended it and hasn't stepped out on me since. Like I said earlier, Mad and I are close.And then, quite suddenly, our.