" "I think you have. I want to see if they fit you. Strip down sowe can try one on you." He hesitated, and she commanded him to strip down right now.... Hewas shaking as he stripped. She took the dress he had just had onand slipped it over his head and buttoned the buttons up the back.It was a perfect fit. She had him try on the other six dresses in the box. They allfit. When he was in the last one, a blue one with white lace trim,she told him he could keep it on. His heart raced, thinking. We made love twice that night. It was then I fell in love with him. Good looks, nice personality and a great lover. I figured I found the man of my dreams, and six months later we were married.Paul is a claims adjuster for an insurance company. He was often away two days a week but it was always great sex when he returned.I had a busy schedule, anyway, so I wasn't pining for him. I taught, corrected papers, attended school events, visited family all the normal things one does in their. I fidgeted for a minute or two, unable to sit still. I wished for a cigarette, anything to occupy my hands, and then the door opened.My ex-wife, Emily, peeked around the door frame and warily said, "Chuck?"My daughter Amber slid around my ex and said, "Daddy?"I smiled and said, "Hi. Yeah, it's me." My voice had lost the raspy tone, and sounded about an octave or two higher than before.Emily stepped into my room and assumed her stance of authority. Glaring at me, she declared, "Charles, so help. Except one girl, who watched the new kid move, and wondered.Her name was Bethany Ann Cooper, and she was regarded as a bit odd,because she once said that she remembered a time when a dead kid had cometo the school, and even claimed to have given this dead kid a kiss.When everyone else laughed at that idea, she retreated, but herreputation remained, and so she usually was alone.But now that loneliness seemed to help her, as she focused on the newkid, wondering.The first time she noticed.