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I sigh as she turns on the deep fryer “Long story”

“We got tiar”

“What about you?” I change the subject “What’s your story? I bet you have a good one”

“We don’t have that much time,” she sasses

“Tryor anyone but Wrecker and our past

“Well, growing up, I always felt aard in irl, trapped inside a boy’s body My parents were against it, sending me to shrink after shrink None of it worked One day, my parents were out to church and I decided to raid my mother’s closet I lost track of tiscripture I was only seventeen, but didn’t care, so that night once they were in bed, I took off Slept in the streets, ate out of du in the woods here, and got rab me another beer “She said I could work for her, but not until I was of legal age, so she keptcrew Once I turned eighteen, she and your daddy helped me start with ery to be complete,” she says as she pats her chest

“So, your dick is gone?” I ask

“Yup I didn’t care that the doctor said to wait until after we started with the estrogen treatone first”

“Wo old are you now?”

“Just turned twenty-two” She gives me a smile

“And your parents?”

She shrugs “Haven’t seen them since the day I left, but onceon their front door to show myself off Of course, I’ll take a man with me, in case my father really loses it”

I grab her hand “I’ yourself now”

“Got that right” She gives me a wink and tosses her hair over her shoulder

I laugh