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"A trans story is a ghost story. A trans story is an integration story about learning to love your ghosts." By Thomas Page McBee.
It really is still a beautiful world.
posted by pwally at 11:21 AM on May 2, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by pwally at 11:21 AM on May 2, 2015 [1 favorite]
I wanted to pull some quotes from this that specifically resonated with me, but realized I'd be copying and pasting the whole thing. So here's the one that made me tear up:
posted by desjardins at 5:43 PM on May 2, 2015 [3 favorites]
She said of course she’d always love me just the way I am. Do you have any idea what that feels like? Nothing anyone in this world does to me, even with her gone forever, will change that. I wish I’d told her that when she was alive, but now she knows.My relationship with my own mother is complicated, to say the least, but the one (sometimes only) thing I can count on her for is unconditional acceptance. I wish everyone could have that.
posted by desjardins at 5:43 PM on May 2, 2015 [3 favorites]
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