Amy was slower, but I'd made sure she would 'want' to come to my door. She was calling after Valerie to slow down and swinging her backpack across one...shoulder. They both looked perfect.I met them at the door and Valerie greeted me with a hug around my neck, rising up on tiptoes and pushing her slim body against me"Danny!" she gushed, "I'm so excited to finally be here!" She kissed my cheek with a load 'mwaah' and squeezed past me into the hallway.Amy approached me with trepidation but still. Mama never forgave me for her missing church that morning, but said she'd pretty much given up everything for Lent anyway.aroslav: Religious family?WHITNEY: Catholic's a religion? I thought it was our nationality.aroslav: I can see your confusion. Have a passport?WHITNEY: First time I tried to board an airplane I found out my baptism certificate wasn't considered identification. I went out and got a driver's license—even though nobody else in school had one—and a passport. Quite the day when. .you know, it figures. In the embryo, the scrotum is formed fromthe same tissue that forms the vaginal lips in a woman." Spare me the biology, Betty. Oooooh! This is killing me! Get me thepanties, quick."She got them and kept talking. "And when you changed back to a man, thattampon had to go somewhere, and...." Why the hell couldn't it have gone up my ass?" I groaned. "I'm used tohaving...." That's enough of *that*! Here." She handed me the panties.I could hardly get the panties on fast. A strange world of red mists filled with buzzing and pulsating stars, where the only things that mattered were my breathing and the smell and taste of the Gas. I felt myself take another big deep breath from the mask, then my eyes slowly closed and the buzzing stars drew me gently into their midst.And then I was floating in a red star-speckled mist that suffused my entire being with an intense tingling buzz. The sound of my deep relaxed breathing, the sibilent hissing of the Gas trolley and the.