The first thought was Marycould now get a proper gown for the evening wear portion of the beautypageant. Then she thought she would get Dave either on... of those footballshirts he wanted or a video game. Lawrence was hard to shop for, but sheremembered him talking about wanting new torque wrenches. Anne loved toread, so the Poisonwood Bible for her. Her husband, it was simple, theywill go to Coriander Lounge for curry. He loved the loud happycelebratory atmosphere there.Leaving the bingo hall. "It has gotten to the point that she doesn't want to live anymore inthe body she has been given," was his reply."Will corrective surgery help?'"NO! Your niece has looked into the surgery and found that she willstill a woman with men's features," Arthur said. "If only she had abrother who expressed interest in becoming a girl. We could have gottenher into your program."Arthur has known about my program from the start. He is also the doctorI would go for a consult if I needed one.Thinking over. ’ He smiled warmly. Rose was surprised. He seemed to be such a hard and gruff man on the outside, but there was real sensitivity there if you took the trouble to look for it. She liked that a lot. A diamond in the rough who was a shining jewel on the inside, but only the privileged could get a look at it. ‘This is the best view overall of the land,’ Rose said pointing, ‘I like to come here to try to think of ideas. Lately I’ve been trying to have ideas about saving the place, mostly. I’m afraid. "I suppose so," she sighed, "pour me one while you are at it."My grin widened when I saw Peter pour out two thirds of a glass of vodka and top it up with tonic and a dash of lime, he then poured himself and me a quadruple scotch and added some dry ginger mixer. Handing the vodka to our sister and one of the glasses of scotch to me he grabbed his own glass and sat down in his chair, both of us watched as Rebecca took a large swallow of her drink, she coughed and we both thought the game was.