"Hi Janey, do you know if Mrs Garber is home?" "I don't know! Are you going to get it Billy? Cuz ifyou are we like to listen! We can hear pretty ...oodby the back basement window, speshully when the boys start screaming!" "And crying!" giggled Diane! "Some are grown men toolike Mr Wilson!" "And begging! I like that best! I bet your'e really going to get it too! I do hope your'e going to really get it!Is that right, Billy? And wer'e going to listen to the whole thing?" "I'm going to. The Government is trying to crack down on the illegal immigrants but way up here in the north it hardly seems to matter all that much.A couple of days later an older couple with an attractive daughter arrived. The daughter was Guadalupe and she spoke English very well. That was a first for me. When I asked to see their green cards and work papers she started making up excuses. I could tell that she was lying. Their papers were lost, they were stolen, or they burned up in a fire. This had to be. One day, we were sittingin the living room, and she jokingly asked if I would like to try on apretty skirt to go with the face she had created. I was by now waxed intoa feminine arch and had pretty blonde hair. I did look pretty and toldher to go for it.She produced an electric razor from nowhere and began removing the hairoff my legs. Once that was done, I went to the tub and was given theshaving of my life! All hints of maleness were gone; and she went for theunderarms as well. I cannot. ”“Like you’d know something about it!”Now it was my turn to shrug.“In fact I do, quite a lot. It wasn’t so many years ago when I was helping my neighbor and my former fiancée to take care of her younger siblings.”I guess that I shouldn’t have been surprised, but yet I was. Only when I started thinking about it, things started to make some sense. The incident that had brought the Elves - and Trolls - to our world had happened quite a long time ago. Maybe even the Elves would forget things with.