See?"I put on the nightgown and crawled into my bed, exhausted from theexcitement of the day. In one day I went from Kevin to Lily, and myparents see...med to be O.K. with it. What a good day for me. Lily. Ilove the name. I will love being Lily. I nodded off and was soon soundasleep for the night.Dad was already up by the time mom got me out of bed and into theshower. She handed me my freshly washed bra. I was embarrassed to havemom watch me dress as I was still naked from the. I only drink champagne cocktails she said in her most superior voice. Thats fine, little lady said Gus on her right he winked at Dan, the barman, who disappeared into the back roon, reappearing with a cocktail shaker, already mixed it seems like. He dressed a martini glass with sugar edges and poured the fizzy contents in to the glass, handing it across the counter to the waiting Leeza. She was so keen to show how mature she was by raising the glass to Gus, Cheers she said, and sculled it in. I gathered my clothes from the assortment we’d left scattered on the beach and walked into the trees to a picnic table, where I sat bare-assed on the table, bare feet on the bench as I waited for my body to air dry so I could dress. I was right; the cold water had thoroughly quelled my erection, my shrunken, flaccid cock now only about the size of Jake’s erection, but it had done nothing for my raging libido. I could see my friends on the platform, lit by the moon above, but I figured they. The problem was that the Americans were really bad at it. They suffered under the lash of a press that worked to keep the government honest. It couldn’t use the big lie. Sure, they could sell packaged ice to Eskimos using commercials, but they couldn’t sell that beating an enemy constituted a victory.Cathy shrugged her shoulders and said, “The easiest way is not to have any regard for the truth. If you say what people want to hear and say it with conviction, it can become the truth. I can.