..an astonishing sharing of tradition with an outsider to the family; the men in the Bernardino family, especially my Dad’s two brothers now living ...in Connecticut, cling tightly to the tradition of who receives a heel from the bread. It is a serious matter with them. At family gathering there are enough loaves of crusty Italian bread for each to have their accorded heel. Nonetheless, regardless of who is hosting the get together; the first heel from the first loaf cut always goes to Dad; it’s. It seemed Carla wanted me to be a very girly girl.I started wearing makeup and jewelry. She had my ears pierced. I got acouple of girly tattoos. She took me to a doctor and got meprescriptions for female hormones and a drug that was supposed to dampendown my male sex drive. I rarely got erections anymore, mainly becauseof the conditioning of the spiked penis tube in my chastity belt. Infact on those rare occasions when I was allowed an orgasm it wasbecoming increasingly difficult to get an. .. so many times ... but he just wouldn’t listen...” Alka bhabhi exclaimed in a mock exasperated tone, albeit with a fond smile on her lovely face.Her husband was quick to open a bottle of beer for me, and pour it into a glass, while he poured a stiff measure of the strong smelling country liquor for himself, grinning at me sheepishly as he did that. I spent the next half an hour or so with him in the living room, sipping slowly on the insipid beer, even as he got himself quite drunk on his own. "The party room's maybe five or six times as big as my livingroom back home, not counting the bar area." So cool," Terri chuckles. "I would give ANYTHING to go to one of theAngels' parties." Well, now you have someone to ask to take you as a 'plus one'," Alexteases, making me giggle and roll my eyes."...I suppose I could ask," I shrug, giggling again as I get cheers fromall of my new friends.Naturally, everyone else also asks this question, even Ciara and thethree boys, and even after we arrive.