Mom was nursing a glass of wine while Tyler had something in a solo cup, most likely whiskey, and both were smoking. ‘Mom!’ I said with disgust, �...�since when do you smoke!?’ ‘Only when I’ve been drinking honey,’ she said, crushing it out and coming to hug us. I introduced her to Ryan, who returned her hug and went to help with his things. We set Ryan’s bags in Andrew and Becky’s room while Andrew delivered the grocery bags to Winston in the kitchen. When I walked back out to the front room,. She said, " Look in that mirror," and pointed to a mirror on a pillar outside a dress shop. I walked over and looked in the mirror at a pretty, red haired girl wearing a short denim skirt and a T-shirt just like the one I had on. This girl had slightly larger breasts than the other girl. "The blonde girl walked over and said, " The old man turned us into girls, Tom" that's when I knew the other girl was John. No one else remembered us being boys named John and Tom except ourselves.. How this guy made her realize she wasn't over me. All I heard was about this other guy. How she'd put herself out there and probably flirted with him to the point where he tried to kiss her. I couldn't hear anything she said after that and refused to work things out. As far as I was concerned, she had cheated on me. Suddenly, I was over it. Over the next couple weeks, I mourned what I had lost. I felt pretty miserable so I surrounded myself with friends. It kept my mind off things, even if it. However, the bad economy has caused our company to lay off several of our key professionals and to cut back on expenses, so I had to start traveling again.The assignment that gave rise to this story was a large potential acquisition in the Minneapolis area, and I decided to take Jim with me for what would be a one month stay, and we weren’t going to be able to travel home on the weekends due to the expense. Jim is forty years old and a senior member of my team, and we and our families are also.