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The story involves an intricate series of time-travel journeys. Itbegins with a young man speaking to the narrator, the Bartender, in1970. The young man is called the Unmarried Mother, because he writesstories for many of them presumably from the point of view of anunmarried mother. Cajoled by the Bartender, the UnmarriedMother explains why he understands the female viewpoint so well: he wasborn a girl, in 1945, and raised in an orphanage. While a fairly uglyteenager in 1963, he was seduced, impregnated, and abandoned by an olderman. During the delivery of her child, doctors discovered he had ancondition: internally, he had both male and female sex organs.Complications during delivery forced them to give him a sex change. Thebaby was later kidnapped and not seen again. The now-former girl had toadjust to being a man and surviving as such, despite being unpreparedfor any attainable job. While he still identified as a girl he had takenlessons, hoping to get into space as a comfort worker...