''Don't give me any buts, Jennie. You are now a girl, just like me. When you were a boy, you were not shy in front of other boys. Now that you are a g...rl, you should not be shy in front of other girls! Your body is a little different from that of most young ladies, maybe, but the point is that from this moment until you are allowed to return to being a boy, you are a girl. Your name is Jennie. My name is Marie. I am a girl, and so are you. So don't be embarrassed or ashamed of your body.. "Lots of in the early days." Then she smiled and wrapped her arms round my neck,"I love you, Jamie, I love both of you."We were still like that when mum returned and asked Sarah if she wanted us in Scotland with her for the funeral."Oh yes, of course, I do," she said in a surprised tone of voice. "From now on we're joined at the hip, the three of us." Jamie, we're going to have to spend most of the evening on the phone, arrangements and all that, you know." Yeah that's ok mum, I feel kinda. Dr. Chesney felt he had lost his only daughter to an inferior social caste. It made him bitter and angry. It had transformed his once tolerant, liberal intellect into a pressure cooker of rigidly conservative moral values, and it caused him to view anyone who promoted hedonism as nothing less than a dangerous predator. Andreas Toscano was just such a man. That’s why Chesney had avoided sending his top feature writer on this assignment. He wanted to avoid exposing her to Toscano’s evil. What had Jeff called me? Her, "meal ticket." I just decided that wasn't what I wanted to be. I still wanted to have a great life and marry someone whom I would love and spend the rest of my life with. It just wouldn't be Kira. And since she lacked the class to tell me that she had taken up with another guy while I was gone, I didn't feel obligated to let her know that we were done.So, as I woke up that bright and sunny Saturday morning, my mood was already altered. And even though I thought.