"Gail nodded, "Ah ha, that's why Howard talked to the sheriff. Now I understand. I guess small town personalities aren't any different from big town o...es. My father is a police officer. He resigned and moved to another town because he got tired of doing favors for all of the brass's cronies. Then he found out it wasn't any different at his new job." Yes," Atwood agreed, "and you will discover it is even worse this close to the border and all the different layers of relatives. I'm an old man and. " Think about it this way," Mom said. "You've done wonderfully, so far. Andyou know how I know this? It's because of the way you talked to them on thephone. They love you, Nancy. And for crying out loud, you don't have to beperfect. You want to be like me? Well I'm sure as hell not perfect." You're perfect to me," I said."And you'll be perfect for Ben and Abby too, because they love you. You'llsee Nancy. And it's not like I'm saying that being a wife and a mother iseasy, because it's not,. ”We have only two weeks until graduation then everything changes.”My Dad was not so pleased I sensed. Whilst it meant that him and my Mum would benefit, he too had a degree of ribbing with his work mates.My Dad too was a slightly built man and had a job collecting refuse and looking after the house and cooking for my Mum me and my big brother who was now an apprentice at the same refuse plant. He hadn’t talked to me since my selection.My Dad was from an era where transexualism and. As per planned I called her and informed that I will be there at her place by 10.00 am and asked her wear the same Kerala saree which she wore on the marriage day for which she said yes. Sharp by 10.00 I reached her house and knocked the door immediately she opened it and was standing in nighty, we both went inside and she made me to sit on the sofa and asked me to wait for few minutes and went inside the bedroom. After a while she came out of the bedroom with her white Kerala saree matching.