Laughingly she said, “I might wear it on New Year’s Eve if you are a good boy.”“You wearing that will have me show you how good a boy I can be...”Both of them laughed at that remark outwardly but inwardly they thought it could be a rather interesting night in welcoming in the New Year.The meal Ellie made for the New Year’s Eve dinner was good. During the meal Tom said to Ellie he was anticipating her wearing his gift. She was trying to dissuade him of her doing that by saying that wearing this. There’s nothing you can do for them. As soon as I can, I’ll be over to look at the boy.”“Ok, Doc, but you know these folks will want some answers. Is there anything I can tell them?”“Tell them that the young lady is alive and not likely to die. Both of the women are in shock. I don’t have anything else until I can talk to them. The boy I don’t know. Won’t know until I can look him over.”The Sheriff was unsatisfied with that answer. “God, that ain’t going to be enough Doc. Please don’t waste any. We talked for about ten minutes and then I told Sue I had better get going, it was around 10:00 p.m. and I wanted to have plenty of time to meet someone. Sue said she was excited for me, telling me to have a GREAT time-and reminding me not to miss my flight home.I called a taxi, since I had already turned in my rental car. At about 10:40 I was standing at the bar drinking a beer, listening to the band and scoping out the women who looked like they might be available. I was just finishing my. As we shopped I took more selfies of myself that I had in the rest of mylife and I bombarded Amy with them.My bank account had taken a hammering by the time we got back to my flatlate in the afternoon, and my typically small male wardrobe was quicklyrelegated to a couple of boxes thrown in the fitted wardrobe of emptymain bedroom, and my current bedrooms wardrobes and dresser were quicklyfilled as we unpacked, dresses, skirts, underwear, shoes make up, hairbrushes and everything else I might.