Ha!My mother wasn't thrilled that I would not finish my degree, but alsounderstood that I was to be a wife and had no intention of using amaster's deg...ee for anything. During what would have been my junior year,I saw Dr. Gensler again and he advised Dr. Weech to officially change mygender to female. I was very excited about this! He continued me on aregimen of female hormones, a maintenance dose I would most likely takefor many years to come.The girls in my life (Jennifer, Rebecca, my Mom and. I had begun tothink that we might actually become friends. When we had finished our `grandtour' as he put it, he even offered to give me a ride home if I could wait aboutan hour.Thankful not to have to walk down the mountain I accepted, and started lookingthrough the multitudes of boxes stacked around his living room to kill the timewhile he finished up some things in his dark room. The first box I opened wasfilled with blue bib overalls, such as I vaguely remember my grandfather wearingbefore. " "So, anyways, this one Thursday night, as I stepped out of my room to say good night, dad patted the couch next to him. He had a small coverlet over his lap, and his hand was under it, and I could see his hand moving. His eyes roved over my body and I do not know why, but I sensed something almost electric at his gaze. I stepped over to him and sat next to him." I went to the video store and saw this video, and it reminded me so much of you, that I had to get it. Would you like to watch it. Carl didn't believe in reserved spaces and his car was parked in the middle of the parking lot. He went over to it and got inside. Looking through the stack of CDs, he picked out a nice country western collection of songs by different artists. He started the car and listened to the CD.Singing along, he drove out of the parking lot. Carl had a lot of reasons to be happy. His life, as well as the lives of millions of others, had improved dramatically. It was amazing just how much misery had been.