But Gloria liked herself the way she was. She'd long given up on shaving her legs, armpits or pubic thatch. Rachel didn't mind a hairy lover, although...she had noticed Edwina almost retch when she had seen the bare-shouldered Gloria raise an arm once. But she was very fair haired and just about got away with it. Gloria liked being strong and hard. She was getting extremely butch these days! But she still looked feminine. Her three opponents had all been plain and even ugly. "Beauty and The. Parker had gotten smart. He called Mom before he talked to me. She and I were sitting on one side of the large conference table. Parker and Kincaid on the other. Mr. Mulino and Mrs. Jeffries sat on the side, though they said they were just observing."Tony!" Mom said warning."Just trying to be helpful," I said with a shrug. "Mr. Parker knows I have no respect for him, though I have to show him respect due to his office." Stop helping," Mom instructed. I shrugged again. "What seems to be the. “Have you had ‘The Talk’,” and he did the air quotes thing with his fingers, “with your momma?” Haley refrained from smirking as the ‘yore’ inflection in his use of the word ‘your’ betrayed his Southwestern accent.“Ye-e-es,” Haley replied with a bit of exasperation and the teenage left-right-left sway to her head a couple of times. “And I went through all of that stuff in Health Science in eighth grade; and I got an ‘A’. So, I know all about where babies come from and how to prevent it, and how. ‘What have you been doing, you looked really tired.’ ‘Oh lots of things,’ he said smiling softly at me, ‘lots of things.’ ‘Oh, come on, don’t tease, tell me where you’ve been all day.’ ‘Wait till Jo comes back and I’ve eaten, I haven’t had anything since lunchtime and I’m really hungry. I’ll tell you everything then, OK. Come here and give me a big sexy kiss.’ So I did and everything was all right again but I was absolutely dying to know where he had been all day. It must be good news because.