Getting lost in the moment I didn't notice that I had company. Theassistant from the surgeon's office smiled at me as I started nervouslyfor a second...at the presence of another in the room."Well good morning sleepy head." Her gaze was full of concern and care. She took my hand and helped me out of bed and over to a full lengthmirror where I got a good look at my new body. My nose had been reshapeda bit, accenting my already high cheek bones. My body hair had beenremoved with electrolysis. I learned years later that she my dad had started having sex when she was 15, and that she would probably have started earlier if the opportunity and the right person had come along. She also could tell that Mark and I were very close, and expected that if it hadnt already started, it would soon. She had considered having the talk the day my periods started, but decided to wait until I was 14. She wasnt really sure why, she just thought she should. She really trusted me to have the good. ’ The old lady gave a sharp rustle to her long black dress as she stood up. She always used every inch of her six-foot frame to intimidate strangers. Her steel-gray eyebrows arched above bifocals. ‘You’re the fourth editor those meddling executors have run in here since Mr. Dunmore took ill,’ she said. ‘So don’t you get fired up and try anything fancy. I’ve been here for ten years and I’ll damn well be here long after Global Media takes over.’ Robyn saw a head peek around the partition of a. "What the...?" I gasped, taken by surprise and not really knowing what to do. I didn't even have time to be embarrassed. My underwear had been pulled down as well and just barely coved my goodies. I stood there like a dope who had been pantsed in the hallway at school. "Oh don't be silly!" was her response to my inarticulate remark. "Here, try these on." she told me, handing me another pair that, frankly looked just like the first. I was really nonplussed but was trying not to appear like an.