They nodded greetings to their friends and neighbors in silence, and began to wait patiently. Mark looked around at his village, marveling at how much...work had been done in the single day he and Kara had been gone."These people are such hard workers!" Mark thought. "Getting ready for the planting is such intensive work. And the adults rely so much on their children. Mayoni has grounded her love for me in a foundation of joyful obedience. This kind of inter- generational cooperation is something. One year of being in dresses and three months of hormone therapy hadn't resulted in a body much different than the one she had before. Her breasts were still barely noticeable and her appearance still hadn't changed much. The doctor told her that it was because she had an unusually high amount of testosterone in her system. The doctor had recommended removal of her testicles to reduce the amount of testosterone, but Elaine had a nasty allergy to anesthetics of all kinds, so she. You guys have been separated for a while, but if you need me to find another job I won’t make any trouble.You’re kidding; you don’t really want to hear the gory details of me and Louisa, do you? Ok, if you’re sure. Let’s have lunch in that diner and I’ll tell you about it.You know I’ve known her since high school; she’s good looking now but man, she was a killer back then. We always flirted; but we never got together. Somehow, the timing was always wrong. I had a girlfriend, then when I didn’t. A nudge in the side brought him out of his thoughts. He looked over and was quite shocked to find Val walking beside him.He said, “Hello, Val.”“Hi. You looked like you were thinking great thoughts.”“Just thinking about my art project. It’s not going well.”“I thought you’d be thinking about secrets of the universe, and all that. I heard that you blew everyone’s mind in your science class.”“Mr. Chandler was just helping me with a homework problem,” Danny said.“So what class do you have.