She made no movement to stop him as one hand came up to cup one breast, and then she realised that she now knew why she had worn a blouse and skirt, r...ather than a dress which would be much more difficult to take off gracefully. Subconsciously she had been waiting for this. It had been years since her husband died, and in that time no man had touched her; this David Ransome had everything going for him, he was good looking, quiet, well-mannered, rich, and above all, he had never known her late. We had cleared out a lot of the trees in front of our house—that wuz what we had been usin' the stump puller fer. We got rid of all of the trees what wuz close to the house, so there wuzn't any convenient tree trunks ta hide behind while they wuz shootin' at us.I had another surprise waitin', too. I had spotted some moderate sized cast iron pots at the general store what had lids what could be fastened down tight. I filled the pots with a mixture of gunpowder an' buckshot an' rigged a fuse. " So, you're saying he's a woman now?" Stephen asked, his featurescreasing as he tried to assimilate what he had been told."I'm saying Jack is what would be described in medical terms as a pre-operative transsexual woman. His body physically resembles that of awoman in most ways, but he still has male sex organs." Can he be made back into a man?" Miriam asked, finding her voiceagain."It's not my area of expertise, Mrs. Welch, but after talking with thegender specialists who came to see Jack, my. Any errors are mine alone. It was previously posted on another site. * Chapter 13 Making Progress It took me less than two hours to provide Kevin with a list of the sequence of components for the prototype. The next three hours were spent trying to come up with some dimensions for items that didn’t yet exist. Kevin and I would be doing something he called a ‘SWAG.’ ‘Scientific Wild-Assed Guess,’ he grinned. ‘Used it all the time at L-M. They have a design place called the ‘Skunk Works’ in.