” “Well,” I said, “I wouldn’t mind having another drink.” “Ah!” Mom said then laughed, “A little dry after a year in the dese...rt, huh? Well, don’t worry, I’ve got you covered. I had a get together at the house two weeks ago and have a enough beer and wine for a whole platoon!” I laughed and said, “I’m in!” We drove back to the house and mom wasn’t k**ding. The garage fridge was stocked with a ton of beer and I’d never seen the wine rack that full. “What kind of party did you. It was soothing butwoke him up a bit and made him more aware of what he was about to do. Itwasn't the first time he had pleasured himself and it wasn't the firsttime he had ever pleasured a woman. It was the first time he wouldpleasure himself as a woman, which was strange in its own right. Heconsidered it more like research the more he thought about it. Findingout what really felt good as woman would let him become a better lover asa man in the future, he couldn't argue with that.At least he. We were two halves of one whole person. We took Dulcie in, you know..." She told me a little of her background." Probably not very much. Anyway, Sara was killed by a falling television set someone chucked over a balcony. They never did find out who'd done it. I ... came apart. It was Dulcie that looked after me until I came back to sanity. But for you, it's as though you've been bereaved twice, isn't it?"Paul thought about that. "Exactly like that." Do you know what you're going to do now?". She thought so but of course she feared she could not be sure.He called to her: "Ms. Irina!" Lizo? What brings you here?" She immediately regretted the question. She wanted to learn that he came to look at her thigh but she did not mean to ask him that so bluntly. And what if he did not come for her thigh? Which turned out to be possible if not probably as it turned out because he lived nearby."I live in your block," he informed her. He gestured grandly with one arm. "Around on the other side.