"They didn't so much sit down as stayed glued to my body while I walked across the room to sit in the middle of the nearest sofa. Carol and Julia in m... lap, Ava and Donna to either side, with everyone looking very worried, including me.The four parents were here and sitting, so I started, "Last Thursday something happened to me which was a major development in my life. I can't describe what it was, but I can say that I entered into it willingly and the result of it includes that I've made a. " She then gave me a complete physical from head to toe."I'm going to give you a couple of shots." You are going to give me female hormones?" I said with a big smile on my face."I'm sorry sweetie but I can't do that without your Mom's permission." I then started crying again. "Hey stop that. I am going to give you a couple shots that will slow down your testosterone. You are at that age that your secondary male characteristics are about to kick in and we don't want that do we." No we don't." I. Things just got infinitely worse.David was a white man nurtured in the cradle of the upper middle class. The furnishings in the sparse, dilapidated bedroom were the belongings of a family living at or near the poverty level.Now tears did leak from the ducts on the former man's African-American face."I sowwy, Mommy. I just so hungwy," pled the little girl, tears sprang into her eyes also.A name sprang into David's mind . . . Tonisha. The little girl's name is Tonisha. Where had that come. He said he wanted to keep in touch so I said it sounded good and saved his contact. We briefly chatted two more times, he was always in a rush it seemed. So the last time we chatted he asked if we could exchange #s to be able to chat better so we did. We talked once on the phone and decided it would be good to meet one day, all seemed to be okay with what we were looking for but we were both busy! Kind of became the theme, everyone was busy!Our chats were brief but to the point. We expressed.