The first thing I do in the morning is go get cigarettes. One package. And the shop is run by a lovely woman who loves to eat, has many interests in common with me, can be very very funny, and very very angry, and over the years, these little ten minutes of interaction have sort of piled up, and i MIGHT EVEN say... we're nearly friends.
I've heard about her struggles with schools and having her hearing impaired son not be shunted off but demqands and GETTING equal treatment for hio,. amd je now a sucessful businessman. She has always been a fighter. And she is liberal, although in some things conservqative, but the latter views tend to refer to aqncient history, where we hope they will rest.
As usuaal, I sounded off abvout the post below, it being Mondaqy, and haveing CHEWED on it all weekend, and she told me a remarkable story. Her younger son had a schoolmate whose family really put him through the wringer. And she sensed something was wrong and drew the boy out. Upshot was, he wanted to be a girl, and his parents werent the nice liberal ones or even half-way understanding ones you would wish for in that situation,
At any rate, she was shocked at the reaction of his parents, and she did the one thing that probably saved thaat child's life. She listened' She read up and seeked qdvice. And was a rock in the ocean tide for him helping him o decidee wjhat it is he wandted.
A few months ago she came in after having all the surgeries to complete her sex chaqnge and practically smothered her with love.
Without her.. she might have died... her parents kicked her out... just like relatives of mine did to their sixteen year old. Being religious is hard work, seemingly, diswoning children.
But this lady... I'm ce.rtain she saved a life, and she said she still can't figure out what the fuss was all about in the first place. Amd tp look at her.... you'd never guess she was----- the most empathetic person in the world
But she's taken... for over thirty years. So forget it.
I've heard about her struggles with schools and having her hearing impaired son not be shunted off but demqands and GETTING equal treatment for hio,. amd je now a sucessful businessman. She has always been a fighter. And she is liberal, although in some things conservqative, but the latter views tend to refer to aqncient history, where we hope they will rest.
As usuaal, I sounded off abvout the post below, it being Mondaqy, and haveing CHEWED on it all weekend, and she told me a remarkable story. Her younger son had a schoolmate whose family really put him through the wringer. And she sensed something was wrong and drew the boy out. Upshot was, he wanted to be a girl, and his parents werent the nice liberal ones or even half-way understanding ones you would wish for in that situation,
At any rate, she was shocked at the reaction of his parents, and she did the one thing that probably saved thaat child's life. She listened' She read up and seeked qdvice. And was a rock in the ocean tide for him helping him o decidee wjhat it is he wandted.
A few months ago she came in after having all the surgeries to complete her sex chaqnge and practically smothered her with love.
Without her.. she might have died... her parents kicked her out... just like relatives of mine did to their sixteen year old. Being religious is hard work, seemingly, diswoning children.
But this lady... I'm ce.rtain she saved a life, and she said she still can't figure out what the fuss was all about in the first place. Amd tp look at her.... you'd never guess she was----- the most empathetic person in the world
But she's taken... for over thirty years. So forget it.
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