That left Pinky Jones as the last member of the "Federal Militia" to be hunted down.I hurried home and changed into my doctoring clothes. I hitched up...the buckboard and drove to the jail. I was trying to put as much separation between Dr. Horton and Jake Esposito as I could. Man, this dual personality thing could get complicated! I arrived only minutes after Joe Wilson. He was already in the jail talking to the marshal. I went in, and the marshal introduced Joe to me. I asked him to let me look. I made up a gift basket of tea, chocolates, and some other things and took it over to the hospital on a night when I thought she would be working. She saw me and smiled. I went to the nurses station and gave them the basket and and thanked them personally for their help and caring. I pulled Andi aside and gave her a single rose with a note wrapped around it. I told her that I needed to thank her especially. I told her that my number was on the note, and she should call me if she wanted. She. It was very easy without any problems and thanks to my new friendship with a girl I met called Anne, my transition to living full time as a female went very smoothly.Although everything must have seemed fine to my parents and the therapists, inwardly I had big problems with the new situation. I was very uncomfortable and insecure in my new female role. I felt totally alien to my new public role. Anne's support and friendship was without any doubt what saved me from not collapsing mentally in. .. how about you ... do you want to go down that road! I won't like you any less than I do now if you don't, but we'll know where our boundaries are!" I think I can be that person, too, Stella: but I will promise you that whatever you tell me now stays between us! Of course, what you tell me may decide what comes after!" That's a good answer, Alan! All right ... here goes! I'd like you as a friend, Alan, but there's nothing else on the table ... you have the right to know that now. You have.