One especially loud-mouthed man stood and said, “You really expect us to believe that? Bullshit! If this is the way you treat your employees I quit.... I’m outta here.”The man immediately rushed for the door and several others stood to follow. Jones stood watching them without speaking. They threw the door open and surged out, only to stop in shock. The front ranks were jostled out of the way as those following exited the room only to stop in shock also. They were standing on the steps and in the. I was short for even fourteen—and skinny—but I was starting to fill out in my chest and biceps. I worked out. I wanted people to stop saying I was almost too pretty to be a boy. My aunt who I lived with in Norfolk had sprung for a gym membership, trying to give me what I kept bugging her about on building myself up. Other than that, she pretty much left me alone. She didn’t know anything about raising kids. She just couldn’t let me go to a foster home when my parents were sent up for drug. It was Peter.“Where are you?” he asked without preamble.“At John’s,” she said coldly.“Didn’t he find you a hotel?”“Peter, you know that was never the plan. I wouldn’t have gone to a hotel if he’d booked one. He did give me the option. You know why I didn’t take it.”“I don’t like this,” he said.She could hear he was either angry or worried in his voice, but found she didn’t really care which.“Peter,” she snapped, “I was angry at you because you tried to run my life with that letter to John. Now. Everyone was speechless since she revealed things she kept to herself until this night. She didn't tell of what she was going to do in the future. As Eleanor and her daughters cleaned the table and did the dishes, she walked with Tim about the darkened island, holding hands. After the disclosure of her past, playfulness was not primarily on their minds."I find this almost impossible to believe," Tim said, looking down at the tiny girl he married. She had claimed that she was the strongest.