Frances told Francine not to be scared. "If you want to become a womanas much as Francesca does, you will have to wait like Francesca untilyou are 18... years old. If you are just a transvestite that is okay toobut until you each get to 18 you can only be transvestites." Thank you Mummy," said Francine.Then there was a knock at the door and I knew it was my turn. Franceshad come for me, the last man standing in the house. It felt just likethe day I had lost the bet all those years ago as. "Well, then, go slowly," McAllister told it, silently.Time slowed for McAllister, as his stick began working a contest of wills. His perception returned to normal, though the room dimmed, and the familiar sense of cold permeating everything without McAllister returned. The golden nimbus around the ivory rod McAllister held encompassed him, and then it seemed to him the stone blocks of the pillar became like glass. Embedded within the stone, the Rod ignored McAllister and the stick talisman,. .. Sol is 13 billion years old and expected to last maybe seven to nine billion more ... Cyngi might last four or five million before Nova and collapse into a yellow dwarf ... she may end up just like Sol ... we speculate that Sol was a supergiant before she collapsed."(For those of you who like that sort of thing, I recommend http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NML_Cygni#/media File:Comparison_of_planets_and_stars_(sheet_by_sheet)_(Jan_2015_update).png/ It makes some VERY BIG things very small.). There were a lot of bad things that had to happen to you for us to meet and fall in love. The worse being my nephew raping you.” I said, no, no sweetheart, that was the best thing. If that hadn’t happened, you two would just have had sex with me and given the slut to the next one in line and been on your way. But because he raped me, peed on me, and made me do all those gross things it drove the other truckers away and left me alone with him in the parking lot where you saw him doing it to me.