I`ve slept for four hours and the little one is still sleeping the sleep of the innocent, I can see a house in the not too far distance so I`ll nip over later and the occupants who owns the land around here and maybe get permission to lay over for a couple of days. Maybe after a couple of days rest the two of us will feel better and more relaxed.

While I was asleep my late wife came to me in my dreams and told me that everything will work out fine, just be strong and protect the child. Was it a dream or did Amanda truly communicate with me?

Amanda Anne Jessop the only woman I really loved, what she saw in me a retired soldier 25 yrs older than her I will never know. She was 19 when we first met and was working in a roadside diner where I had stopped to get a meal. A real beauty she was, surely she could find better work than this, but when she came to take my order we just seemed to click.

I was the only customer so she sat with me and we talked while I ate, for some unknown reason she told me she was intersexed and was surprised when she found it didn`t bother me at all. Well serving abroad broadens the mind and I`ve seen and done most things. I managed to find work locally and within the year we were married, sad to say we didn`t have the wedding either of envisaged.

Neither of our families turned up, she had no friends and the only friends I had were army buddies scattered around the country but I had no addresses for them. So the wedding party was the local preacher, the two of us and a couple of strangers I paid to stand as witnesses. We never had a honeymoon as such but she was happy, we found a town to settle in and I found work and a year later a little Angel joined our family.

Little Amanda was three when trouble first came knocking and ever since we`ve moved from one town to another, it`s usually six months or so before she outed and the self righteous start crawling out of the woodwork. OOPs Amanda has woken up, well I`ll get her fed and watered and wait for the usual tirade from her, maybe I`ll take with me when I go over to see the owner of the house, we`ll see when she calms down.
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Oh boy what a surprise, she apologised for loosing it yesterday it seems she has finally realised why we are always moving although she feels terribly guilty saying it`s her fault. I`ve comforted her as best i could and told her that people will always be afraid of those that are different in anyway.
We walked over to house and was surprised to find one of my old army buddies owned it and all the surounding land, we moved the motorhome up to the house and he and his wife and putting us up for a few days. Steve and I go ways back, we went through basic together and served in the same units until he was invalided out a few months before i was retired.
Mary Ellen, Steve`s wife has taken Amanda into town to do a shopping, I`ve given them a wad of cash and told them to enjoy themselves (what woman doesn`t enjoy shopping). Steve and I caught up on our after service lives, he`s done well for himself marrying the most eligible batchelorette in the area and is know the biggest and wealthiest man in the area.
The girls arrived home and of course Amanda had to do the usual fashion show, at least she`s looking happy again. After dinner Amanda went to bed and the three of us adults talked . Mary Ellen told me that Amanda had let her in on her secret, needless to say I was stunned but Mary Ellen was sympathetic. Of course this meant that Steve had to be told so I told him everything,, when I told him I punched the vicar through his precious stained glass window and had Broken his jaw,he just shook his head and said "Well you haven`t changed when it comes to standing up to people"