Late night Conversation
“Hey, what’s wrong?”
“I’m scared.”
“About what?”
“About what we talked about today.”
“The... changes you’ll be going through soon?”
“Uh-huh. Its really going to happen? I’m going to change into a woman?”
“Yes. But it’ll be okay. I’m a woman, and I do fine.”
“Its not that. Its just ... everything about me will be different. The way I look, the clothes I wear, even how I think about things ... like boys and men, right?”
“True, but why is that scary?”
“Well, its just that if everything changes, I wont be ... me anymore. I’ll be somebody else. It’ll be like I died. And I dont want to die.”
“Oh you wont die. Everything will be different, but everything you are now will still be with you, inside, as memories.”
“Still scary.”
“Well, I’ll be with you the whole time, promise.”
“You’ll still love me, wont you? No matter how I change?”
“Always and forever, sweetheart.”
“Okay. Thanks for everything. Night.”
“Night.”
Later ....
“I heard. Sounds like Terry’s overwhelmed by all this. “
“Look buster, you saying I didn’t handle it right? Well, with our youngest, you can do the puberty talk.”
Fin.