Then we went back to your world in Lancaster, Pennsylvania,and you took Greyhound back to Athens." We didn't go back to visit any of the places where ...'d changedpeople?" Only after he'd asked this did Nat realize he'd said "I"rather than "she"."Not on that trip. I did go back to check on some of them a yearlater, but you weren't with me; I found two tiny babies and four orfive pregnant women in Athens. Those mothers were being treated likeroyalty." And -- the other me was female during that. But we just don't know a thing about those guys on the beach. Seriously, who knows what those nineteen or twenty-year-old guys down at the beach could have, and besides, the over the counter spermicidal is not one-hundred percent."She looked at me out of the corner of her eyes and stated, "That's the second time you've mentioned the guys down on the beach. It just sounds like you're wanting something you're not saying. Listen, whatever we are doing. We need to just do it. Henry will wonder why. The bottle didn't last long and they ordered a second. A little light headed, Sheila asked, "What have you been up to?" I don't know. The same old, same old," Caitlin answered but Sheila sensed a tinge of resistance when she answered."Look, Caitlin, I know you well enough to know you are holding something back."Caitlin sheepishly looked down at her wine glass and said, "Well, maybe." Okay, spill the beans."Caitlin's pregnant pause gave rise to a dramatic effect when she finally said, "Look, we. I tried a hooligan cap for a while, a grey one, but it made me look like a flasher when I wore it with my Chesterfield and like a granddad when I was out in regular clothes. Besides, I’m a celebrity. I can wear whatever the bloody hell I like.Ali got out from behind the wheel and opened the rear passenger door for me.“Good mornin’, Mista King.”That was as civil as it got. He’d learned to open doors and greet me with something other than: ‘Hey man!’ and at that point I just gave up.“Good.