Moments later Carol returned, followed by a tall, sashaying sort of person – in order, that’s what one noticed first, followed by the brassy-blonde hair in a ponytail, the jet-black eyebrows and the moustache which might or might not have been dyed some colour between those above it. Marilyn’s figure was good but from which side of the great divide it was impossible to say – nevertheless, he moved with the confidence born of many victories in the gender-identity wars. Indeed, thought Smith, if this was the Marilyn of five years ago, he was in the presence of a pioneer, a veritable
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