She ripped the tag off and took it to the register to pay for it. I slipped my shoes back on and straightened myself up as best I could and stepped ou...t of the changing booth. Amanda met me in the clothes aisle and walked me to the door, as if she was showing me off. She led me to other store two stores down the strip that was a shoe store and we went straight to the boots section. She asked for a pair of knee-high black leather boots in my size and had me sit on a chair. When the clerk. ”“Yeah. Let me quickly add the oil and eggs, and I’ll be ready for them.” A third of a cup of oil and two eggs. Check. Stir it all up and... “I need to get these off the heat before they burn Manny.”“Give me three quarters of the fudge first, and I’ll stir the caramel so it doesn’t burn.”“Okay”. Allison poured most of the fudge into the bowl, and put the pot with the rest on a cool burner. “Hand me the caramel. How much of it is going in?”“Most of it. Just save a little for the top.”She poured. I stopped in at the Grill Masters Steak House in the plaza on my way to the highway. I had a very nice steak and a baked potato. The salad was also nice if you liked shredded lettuce and a little fruit. The coffee sucked, but I was pretty picky about my coffee.By the time I got back onto the road it was 9 PM. There was nothing like a steak and carbohydrate fix to raise my level satisfaction with life.I entered the highway headed away from College Hill and toward County Seat. I usually drove in. I'm one of them, you know, sort of." Yeah, so Shelly tells me," said Mom, chuckling somewhat nervously. There was some anxiety in the family that even though I liked being a girl now, I might become absolutely miserable about it in a few years. I didn't fit the transsexual profile, because I didn't want to be a girl when I was a little boy. At least, not that I could remember. Shelly Lauterbach, my sister-in-law and personal confidante, who was also a psychotherapist, knew this, but accepted my.