I also had all the other ID's to use if I needed them. I went in the house, turned the coffee pot on, and sat down and waited for it to brew. I decide... to dig out my laptop computer and see about our plane tickets to Columbus. I got online and booked our tickets and hotel using the company I always used. I also arranged for a rental car when we got to the Columbus airport. Since I no longer had a reason to be here for the auction, I went ahead and booked us to fly out in the morning. I told. .. ever!"########################In a bar called Mona's Tavern, Carla---formerly Carl---turns to her bestfriend Lenita, "So when did this place become a drag bar, Lenita?" It was about the time we all decided we were transvestites."Carla takes a sip of her beer. Asks, "Doesn't that seem like kind of anunlikely turn of events to you? I mean all of us? And just out of theclear blue like this?"Lenita ponders this. "I have to admit, it is a bit of a coincidence."A large, distinguished African. "She frowned again, but took out a pen and signed the papers."Okay, so what else do you have to tell me?" Not here. Come by Mrs. Bell's house on Thursday and we will have a long conversation." I can live with that. I should have some of my first reports back by then." Great. See, it's all working out."She harrumphed at me and left. That afternoon I got the second thing I needed out of the way, a visit with police detectives. Luckily, the detective that showed up was the one I had dealt with at. Gemma had headed home and deprived of her company and reassurance, the house suddenly felt very empty and lonely. Our three kids had fled the nest, and now Jill was several thousand miles away in a hotel bed with her handsome boss and friend of five years. The second man to share her bed since we’d started this new lifestyle. A man she’d see every day at work.I tried to sleep, but not surprisingly sleep didn’t come easily that night. I tried distracting myself with a movie, and when that failed.