When I started writing my book, two months after returning from the Amazon, I was already blocking out the hard times and selectively remembering an excitement-packed two-year adventure.

This summer, Tammy started taking hormone-blocking drugs, which will stop him from experiencing puberty. It will postpone him developing broad shoulders, deep voice and facial hair.

The only hope in blocking this merger now would have to come from the NYSE shareholders, who have just now started to raise concerns about the NYSE's intransigence on the matter.