"You don't need thissurgery to be complete. You are already complete."Mary was nodding her head, and Dad kept looking like he wanted to besomewhere el...se. But they were right again. I know I didn't need thissurgery to validate my womanhood, but it still would complete mephysically. I nodded my understanding."What about you two," Mary turned her attention to my parents. "How areyou two taking this?"My mom opened her mouth to respond, but it was Dad who spoke first."I couldn't be happier," he said. "Anne met her son's glare with one of her own."And this is one of those times when you can't get out of your own damned way," she said. "Now go somewhere and do something and let me speak to my grandson. If you decide to put me on plane back to England right afterward, so be it."Andy's gaze shifted from his grandmother to his father."You threatened to send Grandma home?" he asked incredulously. Evan continued to stare at his mother but nodded slightly."Your grandmother needs to understand that. ‘Enough about The Great Joseph Williamson, tell me who Kay Mitchell is.’ Kay was taken aback a bit with his forwardness. She was so used to Steve not caring to hear about her day, that she just assumed all guys were not interested in her. ‘I wouldn’t even know where to start.’ ‘Start with what you like to do with your day when you’re not walking around golf courses crying and falling into mud puddles.’ Kay laughed and said ‘if I wasn’t so hard up for some Dr. Pepper right now, I’d be outta. Jimmy never said anything nice, after we were married. I felt like I was ignored except when there was a social function and then I was just decoration.’ She paused again and kissed me softly on the lips. ‘Since we’ve been separated, I’ve met a lot of men and most of them drool over me, which has helped the ego, but I hadn’t found one that intrigued me. That is until you spoke to me at the Opera. You were so charming and totally out of place but having, a good time never the less. I liked your.