Muslim terrorists had come over the border from Guinea and seized a small town. It was feared that over thirty people had been killed. The British Hig... Commission in Freetown had no news of any British casualties.That was scant relief to Moira. She did not know where in Sierra Leone David was. He might be in the next place to be attacked. It was all very well the High Commission saying that they had no news of British casualties. They probably had no news at all nor would David's headquarters. The waiting time: ten months. Ten fucking months. Gads.(Even then - two years ago - the system was woefully overtaxed, and ithas since gotten worse. By the time I was close to the end of my ownprocess, the waiting period had increased to almost 2 years, which, in myhumble opinion, is not only completely unacceptable, but actuallydangerous. I could see some trans people becoming so discouraged by theinordinate wait just to get an initial appointment that suicide mightstart to seem a viable. I smiled back and said “Shoot.” He laughed “That’s not something you want to say to an armed officer princess.” I just rolled my eyes and whispered “Whatever.” “Where are you from?” “Sinaloa” “I knew it, damn! Where from? What part?” “Near Culiacan” “No, shit? I’ma call you Culichi then” He got out of the truck and went to open the door for me, unhooked my seat belt and helped me out. He reached around to take off. Actually my uncle was married late, he had a love affair, but the family forced him to marry with some other girl. My aunty was great today she is old, so after their marriage when I visited there place. I recognized that my uncle was still keeping some hidden relationship with his first love; my aunty was unaware of it. I really felt very bad about it, but could not help it. I had to keep mum. Whenever I used to visit there place I used to stay there for 2 months as in India the college.