The reason to why he was in such a hurry, was that on the day before this one, was his birthday, and the first thing he had seen when he woke up that ...ay, was this brand new, shiny bike! Exactly the one he had told his mom and dad he wanted, a couple of weeks earlier! Right there and then he felt like the luckiest boy alive! The only downside to his birthday (lots of his friends had come over, bringing nice presents as well, though nothing as exiting as his new bike) was that he never got the. 'Dale put the kettle on for tea while I filled the boxes. Jeremy joined us in the kitchen, empty-handed and said, 'You did a thorough job, you two. I'll give you the number of a dealer who shifts a lot of old paperbacks. Tell him how many there are, and if he has space he'll make an offer. If not they will have to go to a house clearance firm. Unless you want to try selling them yourself on the internet, but I fear that would be a lot of effort for not much return.' On the way back to Fulrose. A sensual, loving womanwho just wanted to show her femininity to the world and -possibly- tothe man of her dreams.As long back in the past as she could place her earliest recollections,she had always had such feelings. Nothing special about that, had it notbeen for a detail -a major detail- that everyday kept reminding herthat, for her, things would be just a little harder than for the othergirls: she had been born in a male body. As she was approaching pubertyin her early teens, she had read. Well, no surprise there. She had spent the past twelve years of her life on a tiny island with only her parents for company. And for the past weeks, she had been all alone.But I wanted to talk. I had all sorts of ideas about what should come next in Sally Gervais' life. As a twenty-year-old, she didn't exactly need a guardian. Certainly not a male guardian only a few years her senior.But clearly she would need an enormous amount of assistance adjusting to her new life — whatever shape that life.