I haven't grown my nailsuncomfortably long, but I do keep them painted, frequently to match myoutfits. Likewise, I've grown out my hair, and while too...thin for mytaste, I can still do things with it. E showed me that I can compensatefor a bit too much forehead by wearing bangs, cut straight across over myeyebrows, and I wear the back about shoulder length. Still, I rememberthe day she took me to cut my bangs as being traumatic. At the time, Iwas less sure about my submission to E and becoming. He spotted me and waved a 'Hi' but I thought I'd better not interrupt the men at work. I saw Sister and her husband sipping sherry on the patio and went over to introduce Janice. I had never heard anyone refer to her as anything but Sister but she introduced herself as Edna, and even called me Nicola instead of the usual Nurse Bryant. It seemed strange seeing her out of 'character'; somehow I never thought she had a life outside the ward.The other older nurses appeared and started chatting to. Your mental will or imagination adjusting your real body to fit the image of your body you like best. That image fixed in your mind. She tells me that in time I will be able to look in the mirror and change aspects of my body and alter my image over time.No, I’m afraid that if you have lost a limb, or something, it will not self regenerate and grow a new one. If something is lost it’s just lost, not replaced. Well at least they haven’t found a way yet to do that. I was sorry to hear that. And she didn't care".Holly moved a little, so that she was in front of him, so that he had to look up at her. He caught a line of her perfume, a heady line, and noted even in his misery that she was wearing his favourite fragrance. Vanilla Fields. Momentarily, the realisation and the scent made his head spin."She cared enough that she begged me on this trip", Holly said, the words slow and deliberate, as though she were talking to a man who needed to lipread. "I wouldn't be here if not for you..