He was a lifeguard back when he was eighteen right after high school, too. He saved two boys and three girls that summer, in fact. He was not in it ju...t to stare at girls in bikinis, though he probably did some of that, being a teenage male and all,” Carrie grinned as she kissed her son on the forehead, not as a lover, just as a mother.“It takes a lot of empathy and compassion for others to be a great doctor or nurse, and Doc has that for sure. It’s a good thing, too, with babies coming out. I was happy to keep the little white ankle socks.Burning the stuff proved to be an easy task -- most of the items were flammable. If we were doing a consumers test, I'd be disgusted with the results. As it was, I was just sad and feeling a bit melancholy as each item blackened and disappeared into a pile of gray ash and on a cloud of smoke. The neighbors didn't even complain about the smell. I did glance around, this being my free day, to see if any were watching from the privacy of their own. "I couldn't have said it better myself. And the worst thing about this, I think we could stop him by using me as bait. But Nick won't even hear of it." You know why, don't you?" Stephanie sank down in the chair next to Michelle."His over developed sense of male dominance?" she joked. She had a feeling she knew what Stephanie was going to say and didn't want to hear it. It wasn't true, it couldn't be true.Stephanie sighed. "You know, if I had a man like him in love with me, I think I'd be happy. "Feel faint..." Her eyes closed and shefell... then the world fell away from me...Waking... we found ourselves on slabs. Naked and held down.A voice came over the screen."First stage complete; the information inherent in your minds is nowtransferred to your new bodies. You have control over them... good.Your old bodies are at present being buried... so no one will look foryou. The next stage may begin."One of the redheads yelled, "Let us go! I'm not a woman! I'm NigelBennet... I have... I can.