Life had been wonderful, they didn't need Valentine's Day, but they celebrated it with reverence and, sometimes, wild abandon.She knew what love was, ...what it felt like to love a man and how it felt to lose him. She remembered what he'd said that last morning, how he'd kissed her; how the sun had lit his face as he smiled, promising he'd be back. She remembered the police, how the sun seemed to dim as they told her the stock phrases. They were sorry for her loss.Since that time, Valentine's Day. "That's why the Diagnostic recommended the turtle-over-snake treatment! It all makes perfect sense, now! "The idea is NOT to make the boy Akane; the idea, the heart of the problem is to make sure that that they are kept SEPARATE! There must be TWO STRONG identities in that one body! If there was just the boy's, then there'd be one less identity, that still housed in Akane's body's. One minus five is FOUR! 'Three' would 'have become four'. FOUR is the number of Yin and Yang! It is vital there be. The hand holding the wine glass shook. Tom put it down. He had toknow for sure before he dared to try it in front of a crowd ofstrangers. Was he the woman, the performer, he'd hoped he wouldbecome? Or just a deluded fool who'd discarded his own gender like abadly-fitting pair of shoes? There was only one way to find out, herealised, stomach prickling, and no real reason to delay...*Jamie let himself into the flat, glad to be home at last. Family wascool, but there was something to be said for. Anyway, one day as I was coming home from my classes, I heard some soft groans coming from Amy’s room. I knocked on her door, and heard her whisper, ‘J-just a m-minute. I’ll be right OOOooout!’ At this point I had figured out that she had obviously been masturbating. I said to her from the hallway, ‘I understand, Amy, it’s okay. I’ll let you clean up.’ I put up my school bag in my room and went to wait in the living room. About five minutes later, Amy came out of her room and gave me a sheepish.