Matt already had the wine uncorked as he’d assumed the agency would accept Courtney’s proposal to paint a large mural on a wall of its boardroom. ...Courtney said proudly, ‘The board of the Farm Mutual Insurance Agency in Wellington accepted my proposal and agreed to pay my price.’ ‘How much?’ Matt asked. ‘I asked for $26,000 and they accepted. It will be a mural, across the entire wall and will take me fifteen days I guess. I’ll stay with my parents. I can’t believe they accepted my cheeky. It read simply: ‘He left me!’ The pain of the note from Jane, or Janie as he’d called her in all of their correspondence was palpable, it screamed from the computer screen at him. It had been a long while, since they’d corresponded and it was rather a surprise for him to see in his inbox that there as a message from Jane Warner. He smiled when he saw it and was smiling still up until he read the message. He sent a note back to her immediately, as though there had been no hiatus at all in their. Then after I got dressed theywould then finish with a little bit of make up. It all sounded so simple and painless but I was still nothappy about being dressed as a woman in public.The shower felt good after the long afternoon spent getting here and shaving my legs wasn't muchmore difficult than shaving my face. I didn't have that much other body hair but the girls insisted Ishaved it too. The feeling of being completely hairless was a little exciting and now that I had startedthe rest of the. "Oh, shit," he muttered. "Well, what do you know!?" the host said in his best mock-serious tone. "We have a tie! Anybody wanna guess?...No, I won't keep you in suspense, it's Gene MacDonald and Leslie Fielding." It was a toss-up whether the nervous laughter, or the applause, was louder as Gene made his way to the podium. He stood there, looked around the audience several times, waiting for the noise to die down. When things were finally quiet, he began to speak."I guess I shouldn't be.