I mentioned before that I couldn't short cut the process and still get satisfactory results, but I could ensure the process was followed expeditiously... What I couldn't expedite was the process in getting qualified to hang up my shingle. I would need a PhD in order to practice and that was going to take years.One year led to another. The second year Melody and Sarah moved in with us. Miriam went a school in Florida, Jackie sort of drifted away with some new friends but Theresa was a regular. Ally though, being Ally, was wondering if she could get Genie to pee on her. Anywhere on her, although her mouth was her first choice.Ken was getting distracted as well. The pheromones that he and Jane were giving off were exciting each other in addition to the other girls."Normally," he said, "I'd be a lot more responsible. However, Helen was less than understanding when I told her I had to take off work for personal reasons. Since I rarely take time off, I thought that was unreasonable." he. .. sorry about Linda." Thanks. It was hard to come back and find out she loved me really but didn't want to tie me down when she was dying. Then ... I thought for a bit she might be healed. I never had her faith ... never understood it. But," he paused, groping for the right words, "I see something real, in her, in you and Dulcie, in her parents. When she died ... I was half impressed by ... the reality of it all, and half furious with a God who would take her away from me." I know," Peter. They both knew that had they remained male, theirlives would have ended long before, due to loneliness if nothing else.Even though Claire used a cane, Melissa insisted on offering her asteadying arm as she walked from the front door of their condo to thewaiting limousine. It had been a decade since the women had sold thebungalow that had been their home for 40 years and moved to a thrivingdesert community in the southwest. Like others in their eighth decade,they found the heat to be good for.