"She walked across the room, taking a small shoe box from the pinksuitcase now and then knelt as she opened it, removing the tissuepaper. It was quite... odd feeling the way the stiff flats closed in hisfeet and his mother buckled the little strap across his ankle.He felt ready to pee his pants as his mother got back to her feet andhis father handed her a big garment bag. She looked almost giddy asshe asked him to stand again as he heard her take the dress from thebag and unzip it."Mom, I think I. Sarika: Ha ha, haan Bharti bhi achchi dikhti hai bas tum use thodi azaadi nahi deti Kavi, warna woh kafi sundar dikhegi.Kavita: Naa naa, koi zarurat nahi.Bharti: Kash kash kash aunty aap mujhe god le leti bachpan mein aur is Rahul ko maa ko de deti.Sarika hass padi aur boli: Hahaha! Abhi bhi god le sakti hun tumhe agar Kavita maan gayi to.Kavita: Haan haan tu lele ise aur Rahul ko mujhe de de.Sarika: Waise bhi Bharti tum chinta mat karo. Tum meri beti jaisi hi ho aur kyu ki tum mere ghar pe ho. Meghan squeezed his hand again, a little gentler this time. "Even if it is ... is ... what we're afraid of," she said, "it's probably something they can get rid of. Treatment for ... for this sort of thing has come a long way in the past ten years." Yeah," Ken said, trying to cling to that thought but failing. He had already done enough research on the subject to know that if it was "what we're afraid of", as Meghan put it, it was pretty advanced."Come on, sweetie," Meghan said, tugging on his. You don’t know how much courage it took to buy them, to say nothing of wearing them together. I just couldn’t bring myself to go out there with just two layers of transparency be- tween me and topless, so the sweater-jac became kind of a cop-out. But today is really the first day of the rest of my life and that was kind of a ‘kick in the door’ kinda thing. At the end of this day, I hope I will be a woman. And I will become that woman by join- ing with a young man that I.