?I was kidding,? I said, sitting next to her.She moved away. ?I?M NOT!? She sobbed, ?I look at you and I feel likeyou?re slapping me in the face.??W...at?? I didn?t understand.?My husband is standing here wearing a pretty dress and is talking aboutbangs and his eyes popping?I feel?lost.??What do you mean???I?m losing my identity. I mean I lost myself and now I?m losing you.?Then she was sobbing.?You?re not losing me. We?re still us. We?re just a different version.But I?ll take everything. Well, not nothing, he was not an empty-headed fool after all, but he sorely could have used some of the consideration his brother had in such great measure. Just as Kef could have used some of Bru's fire.Bru was fun for a night on the town and Kef was a great companion for a long ride on the plains, and I had dallied a little with both of them. A dalliance or two while young was perfectly acceptable among the Shiru, expected in fact. I had enjoyed both brothers, though I had been thankful to. He never told her that when she got this angry, it only made her more beautiful. Her eyes would burn bright, her face would become flush and he would stare at her lips while she would form every curse word she screamed at him. He couldn’t resist. Keeping her arms in his grasp he bent over to kiss her. She began kicking and yelling, “No! NO!, not this time!” She was turning her face so that he couldn’t find her lips. After a struggle, he planted one on her. She tried to bite his lip but he. “Megan said I could come in and see you,” she said. “I have to be quiet, and let you rest. The others are all out in the living room. May I get in here next to you? When Mary Beth told me you had been in hospital, and collapsed because of a heart problem ... I feared the worst. So, it wasn’t a heart attack or anything like that?”She slid into the bed next to me, and lay on her side, propping her upper body up on her elbow. I told her what had caused the problem; pretty much as the doctor had.