" Meddling is right," she snapped. She walked over and sat on the loveseat across from me. "Listen. I appreciate the thought. And I'm sorry for your l...ss." She smirked. "Ha, listen to me. Sorry for your loss. Crap."She leaned back. "We're doing fine. I don't need your help, I don't know you from Adam, and I don't want you around my daughter when nobody's around. Jesus, you painted my frickin' front door blue! A little presumptuous, don't you think?"I smiled. "I would have picked the wood tone.. In the kitchen he prepares a meal for her. Tonight she will eat like a queen. He steps back to see if everything is in order . The meal is in the low oven, there is an open bottle of wine in the fridge, a rose in a glass on the table. The only thing left is dessert. He will have to see if she will stay for that. He waits in his room, near the laptop. Half an hour later he sees her on the screen. She peeps after she opens the back door. One look around and he can see she thinks she is in the. The only reason I was able to figure it out wasfrom experience. Last summer I worked a burlesque show in the city.There were several transvestites/transgender performers that I got toknow. Some as good as you, some could never pass in the light of day." In answer to your 'why' that's easy. I'm gay and drawn to gurls likeyou. Now you know my secret. If that got out in this berg of a town,my life would be over just like yours. Do we have a deal?" he said."Deal? What kind of deal are you. I love him, even if I’m not in love with him. He’s given me many good years. He’s my husband. I don’t want to kick the man while he’s down,” Mom suggested.“I love that idea, Hannah. What about you, Crystal?” Ruth smiled.“As long as Hannah agrees to me as her wife while still married to Larry, that’s a-okay with me. If Larry can practice bigamy, so can Hannah,” Crystal said, “In fact, I think that it’s a beautiful act of self-sacrifice and selflessness on Hannah’s part ... and Ruth’s. Are we all.