The reflection wasn’t anybody I wanted to know. That guy was the total opposite of how I pictured myself.But ... the first time I saw new myself ref...lected in a still pond? I meant it.Who da fuck is that?I mean ... I knew I was big now ... but I wasn’t prepared for six foot eight. Aren’t Indians short? The Apaches ... ah ... I get it ... the Apache were historically short but in Ohio, amateur excavations of Indian burial mounds tell of many skeletons being exhumed that measured 6.5-8 feet in. So far as they are concerned I expect total obedience and impeccablebehaviour, any deviation will be punished without sympathy or mercy.Have I made myself clear? I tried to protest but she dismissed me with awave of her hand. "Francesca here will look after you" " Ecco, lei ?quaranta dimensioni"If the captain was tall and elegant; Franscesca was squat and butch, withcropped hair and ridiculously bushy eyebrows and dressed in a greyuniform jacket from which her tattooed arms projected over very. Settling down at my desk I woke my computer and logged in. My inbox was full of emails with more slowly joining the pile.Such was the life in Public Relations: always fires and everything needing to be done yesterday. I scrolled down my inbox until I got to the last email I read yesterday. Taking a long sip of my coffee I opened the first email of the day and began reading through the message. A surprised expression appeared on my face as I swallowed. My coffee tasted so good today; it seemed. ...It took many years of secretly dressing before I gained the confidenceto do something about my body. I did lots of research into changing sex,I realised that as I was six foot tall it would be difficult to pass sodecided to take matters into my own hands, I needed to be happy as me. Ifirst visited a private clinic in Manchester, they took blood tests,told me to apply cream twice a day to my beard growth and chest, theyalso gave me some 0.625mg Premarin tablets. It took three visits (eachat.