Let it run its course before you say anything Beth. As always my firstday there went well into the night and involved a couple of bottles ofwine. We t...lked about what had been going on in our lives. I will giveher credit that she didn't raise the subject I am sure she wanted to. YesI was definitely leaning towards the decision to take that step into theunknown and start over as Beth but other than to Dr. Wagner I hadn't letthat on to anyone. Maybe not even to myself.Tuesday and Wednesday were. .. as a friend, of course, for ... what? Some set period of time?" Yes," she answered, a little more firmly, as if for the first time, she thought that he might actually go along with the scheme. "Something like a one-for-one hourly swap. If it took you, say, ten hours of hypnosis, then I could ... um ... be yours sexually for ten hours. You know? Or something like that." She sat for a moment in deep contemplation, her tears finally forgotten. "Or we could agree on two-for-one, since I don't. Inever let on to her how crushed I was when she told me she was sucking myfriend's dick, but she knew exactly what she was doing to me.We were both in our early twenties and unmarried, which in our culturemeant we still lived at home with our parents. Her father had areputation for being a very strict man, so when he caught wind of herquestionable late night activities he decided to pack up and move hisfamily to a small rural town in Pennsylvania. Not seeing her on aregular basis upset me but. ”We shook hands, grinning like a couple of Cheshire cats, before he dropped a bombshell.“But if we are to be friends then I must inform you my birth name was not Callum Keane, and will reveal the reason for my change of name.”We sat on two chairs in our shared cabin as he told me his story.“I was born in the west of Ireland, in a village a few miles outside the town of Limerick. My father was a shoemaker, not as fine a craftsman as the one who made your boots,” he said, pointing to my Gucci.