" Look. It's different for a girl. I'll never be the same again. I just want to be sure this is right." It's right, Patrice. It's been right. We love ...ach other." I know we do. I'm just not sure I'm ready to take the next step. Maybe it will be tonight. Maybe I just need a little time."I felt her emotions, her fears and desires, in my heart. I wanted her to want this. If she didn't want it, I didn't really want it to happen, as much as I wanted her. I certainly didn't want her to regret doing. "Eva is really your sister?" I asked, looking between the two of them."My half-sister," Wolfgang said, smiling at the girl. "My father spent a lot of time in West Berlin and he was a lonely man. He kept a mistress, a working girl. Very young, very ... beautiful, like Eva herself." I did not know he was my father," Eva said. "But I remember he was kind to me. He would come often, before the Wall came down, but after that ... No more." Of course, he was married to my mother," Wolfgang continued.. In the cold weather from October to April I keep my legs shaved since there is no call to wear summer shorts. Karen has gradually got my own hair into a neat, short cut with no sideburns that is acceptable with my everyday business suits but also very easily covered with one of the two wigs she purchased for me.She used to help me with my makeup but now I can handle it myself with some expertise. When she has checked that I've got it right, and before I put on my lipstick, she gives me a loving. ’ I introduced Pete and outlined to Sammy what had happened on that day in Dallas, what we were doing and why. His answer was ‘how can I help, you know I thought the world of you and Lorelei. And my wife has asked what happened to the two of you. You remember Virginia, I was with her then and when we graduated we got married. Now we have three kids, and she is the enforcer. I might be tempted to let things get wild once in a while but she can walk in here at any time day or night, and things.