I ended up on crutches for nine months and then in physical therapy for over a year. Fortunately, the Army paid for the knee surgeries, the PT, and ga...e me a graceful exit from the service.My thinking about the role of government and the military changed in that transition. I came to see the military as mired down in many situations where they were deployed because of all the 'handcuffs' put on them by the politicos. The mire, the mess, the mistakes, the waste, and the huge and inefficient. ” Again there was a moment of silence. “Uh, is Sylvia here?” “Just a moment.” he walked away leaving the door wide open. He didn’t come back after long moments.Sylvia’s front door was not exposed directly to the street so I didn’t worry too much about that, just remained standing there, decided to kind of cover my crotch. Time passed and I heard some commotion behind me, across the street, so I crept to the side looking around a pillar and there people coming down the trail I’d just followed,. We continued shifting positions seamlessly in the car, all the windows fogged up from the heat of our bodies till we thought we could no longer handle it. We got dressed and he turned on the car and we found that 3 hours had passed, which beat the hell out of the usual 15-30 minutes the other people I had been with. We drove back to the meeting place but I didn’t get out of the car because I needed to come down from the high. The sex was that incredible. We continued to talk about what we. My name had been changed, and onlyonce did I feel as if I had to be my own self. But I no longer had anymale clothes, so I went during my lunch hour. I wore the pink suit. Ashort straight skirt with an antique white blouse and a scalloped pinkjacket, white heels, my hair done perfectly and red lipstick. I walkedin, my heels clicking on the marble floors as I went into the office toregister for the coming school year. I was very lucky. The woman thattook care of me lived just down the street.