.. help me, Uncle Bill... I don't feel..." and to finish her sentence he heard the sound of her throwing up in the toilet. "I'm on my way honey!" he s...aid, as soon as she was finished and came back to the phone. Wide awake now he jumped into his jeans and threw on a t-shirt and raced across the street to Christy. He knew where Lucy stashed an emergency key and retrieved it unlocking the door and throwing it shut again behind him as he ran through the house to the bathroom."Christy! Christy. He had never previously met anyone who could change so easilyand quickly from male to female and from female to male and be soconvincingly comfortable in either role. Tina was by then 24 and so hadspent half her life not knowing anything other than being female. Thomasalways tried to keep his hair fairly long and hands well manicured. Hisfacial hair was fortunately fairly soft and pale in colour, matching hisalmost blond hair. He was also able to adjust his voice from a lightbaritone to a low. The guys started getting pretty handsy, not that I was really complaining, but I was spending more time fending them off than having conversation. As I sat at the table I pushed Ron’s hand away from my breast. Then I had to take one of his friend’s hands off my thigh, and so it went. I noticed over the next hour or so that lots of the men in the bar were checking me out. That wasn’t too un- usual, guys in bars just do that. This seemed to be something more though. Finally I. They had their backs to me so I took that as a sign from God to sneak up and listen."It's down into the fibers of the wood," the man said. "There's nothing I can do to get it out." I can't leave it like this," Dora said. "People won't want to come out here with blood all over my dock. Can we replace the piling?"The man nodded at her. "Sure, but that could get pricey. You might want to consider sealing the pilings and painting them. That would be a lot more cost effective." How soon can you do.