I almost didn’t recognize her except the dress and jeans jacket she was wearing were the same as the first day she spoke to me. She was wearing a bi...g round pair of sunglasses and carried her lunch tray like she didn’t know where anything in the cafeteria was and she was looking for a place to sit.“Damsel in distress,” Beca whispered. “Go be a nice guy and offer to sit with her at lunch.”“Here?” I squeaked as I stood.“Of course here, idiot!”I moved over to where Rachel was looking at a seat at a. Once I got myself ready, I put a little makeup on him, brushed his long hair into an approximation of a female style and clipped on a raspberry bow. A gold necklace, a few bracelets, a blue purse, and he was ready to take anywhere.We left the apartment and he was delightfully apprehensive as he clicked down the sidewalk to the beauty parlor.Once inside we were seated side by side. The attendant knew that Paul was male, of course, but didn't hesitate a moment. His hair was washed, cut, colored. It gave me a little satisfaction that I was happy to see her on the path to recovery. It also gave me a little dissatisfaction that I could have any empathy with her situation. Basically, the whole thing generated a lot of ambivalence.But that's how life is, isn't it? So little is clear and the consequence of actions taken or not taken are rarely what we expect. All you can do is the best you can.Karen was getting pretty close and was not as spry as she had been. Our sex life was completely. "In February 2007 The Royal Green Jacket Regiment ceased to exist. It was amalgamated with The Light Infantry Regiment, and several 'heavy' infantry regiments, to form The Rifles. Renamed, rebranded, and rebadged.By then I had resigned from the TA, and the upheaval which occurred in the regiments concerned had little or no impact on me now I was a civilian, other than that my 'family' had been given a change of name. But for serving members of the units it came as a huge emotional shock. From.