Finally she took a deep drag on the cigarette and leaned to the side to take an ashtray from the small table at the side of the sofa. Jean crushed the... life out of the thing, smoke like dragon's breath through her nostrils. She gulped wine, placed the glass next to the ashtray, and then swivelled her torso to face me.She sighed and looked at me with what I interpreted as pity.I ran my fingers over the embossed pattern on the beer can, swallowing down the anxiety."Carl," my aunt said, softly.I. While Tim is no hard body and a little pudgy, he isn't fat. Tim is very adventurous and it was that adventurous spirit of his that I fell in love with. Tim is always hungry to try new things. Sex was very good and with Tim, creative. I met Tim at work, when I was fresh out of college with a masters. Tim was older and different from the college boys I had dated. Mature and grounded with a hidden undercurrent of rebel, I fell for Tim immediately. I was no virgin and had dated two guys seriously. His appointment with Pam was for eleven, but that meant that he had to get up very early and drive hard to make it, but the alternative was driving all night and having to sleep alongside the road, not good when he wanted to put forth his best appearance, for more reasons than one.What made it worse was that they'd lost both sides of the double-header, their first real league matchup of the season, and that made the rest of the season look not very promising. The opportunities the girls had. "Ever since Miriam's husband had passed away of a heart attack a fewyears earlier, she'd been lonely and dwelling on her own mortality.There was no escaping the fact that she was getting older and doing soalone. Eventually, she would die alone. But now, she realized that shewas young again. Suddenly, she'd gone from being 53 to being only 16.She felt a surge of excitement at that, at the thought that she had asecond chance, even if it was as a boy."But this isn't really my body," Miriam.