I wasthe million-dollar girl and the winner they kept saying.Could I do this, could I win the money?"Mom do you really think I can pull this off?"Son ...with our help you can be the girl I know you always wanted to be.We can do this, we can be rich"!I looked in the mirror, I saw a girl, amazing what a wig and makeup cando to a boy I thought."Ok, girls let's win the million dollars, but I need your help." Oh, son, you got our help 24/7, you will be the daughter I alwayswanted." Ok Mom lets eat. You go get cleaned up while I fix dinner.” “We can’t both shower at once, “Geroge started to say. He was going to add, “and we’re not showering together,” but Terry interrupted him. “Yes we can. When Gramps and I put the plumbing in, we used all 2 inch pipe. You could flush the toilet in the same bathroom while someone was showering, and they’d never know it.” “Wow!” Geroge said. “That’s nice. It shows a lot of foresight.” “Well, when we were doing the job, it only meant about 10% more in. What the hell was going on? If I didn't know it was impossible, I would have said I had stepped right into the past.The more I saw, though, the more I was convinced that this was exactly what had happened. But how? What was the mechanism?Just then a door opened at the back of the farmhouse. A woman came out, dressed in a much patched looking dress of some sort. She went quickly to a pit and dumped a few items into it, then ran back to the house.I saw a piece of paper fluttering in the slight. I positioned the holster a little more comfortably, gave Anna a hug and kiss in thanks, and walked out to join her grandfather.Mounting my horse, one-handed, proved awkward but relatively easy. Once I was certain I was ready, we rode off for the village, at a walk. My shoulder seemed to be handling a walk just fine, so I spurred the horse into a trot when we reached the bottom of the slope. After a half mile of trotting I cautiously spurred the horse into a canter.Mr. Mendoza rode up beside me.