...uh.....why are you dressed like this mommy? You look so prettybut I've never seen you like this." Oh great, he thought.....I'm callingher mommy."We...ll baby, you remember me telling you that it's OK that you likepretty dresses and other things like that? And me telling you that evendaddy likes pretty dresses and likes when I dress pretty?" "Yeah, I remember mommy. But I'm sure daddy doesn't like that stuff thesame way you think I do." Well maybe not sweetie.......but daddy bought this for me. It is not that I am really weird; it is just that I have to wear dress clothes, including long slacks to work in and I like to hike after work out at a park nearby. When I was young, I worked in restaurants and I saw what happens on those floors and in those stalls. I do not ever change in them!! And after a guy was arrested this spring at that same park for changing clothes in the parking lot, I just figured I would do my thing here.I had unbuckled my belt and undone my pants when I. .. naked. She got a good laugh out of that. He finally told her of how the closing door signaled the finish of him and Patty."We're done. Never again will thoughts of her color my thinking. I did nothing wrong. It was always her," he affirmed with finality."Good," Elaina said with a nod. "I was getting tired of running into her shadow. Now we can truly move on."And now it's time to ask the other burning question: What was that?"He knew immediately what she was referring to and posed his own. “What’s that?” I asked.“Noxzema,” she said. “It will soothe the skin.”“I forgot about Noxzema,” I said. A lot of soldiers used Noxzema in the Middle East. It did wonders for both easing the pain of sunburn and healing the skin. That’s not what it was designed for, but it works really well for that affliction.I felt the cool tingle as soon as she spread some of it over my left stump.“Thanks,” I sighed.She did both stumps, and then wiped her hands off on my thighs. I tensed as her hands got close.