Questions to Consider: As You Reflect back from the Final Stages of Your Life By Becky Joy Hirsch 1) His back hurts a) So he can’t focus on the real problem: 2) That he does not know if he is a) A man b) A woman c) Or is becoming a woman i) Again? ii) Or for the first time? d) Or if he has lingering vestiges of womanhood (1) From a past life, (2) Or last Thursday1 (a) And was she a date (b) Or just a friend? e) And what if he was a lesbian woman and she was date f) Or what if he was a lesbian woman and she was still just a friend? g) Or what if he was a bisexual man and she was still only a friend after he told her that he was in love with her after he left his life partner of thirty years, but she was so sure that he was just confused (and that he really was gay) that he ended up having to chase her back to her apartment2 where he tripped – no, slid – on the street because it was the day before New Year’s3 and he had just told Asher it was over and he was wearing heels- no, platforms- and he slipped i) And was that how he hurt his back? ii) Or was that from the complications from the surgery he had gotten back when he was a teenage girl4 and he had been so sure that he was actually a man 3) And he had never regretted that decision a) Except that right now his back was killing him.
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When he went out jogging with Claire-Elise On 22nd and 9th 3 And snowing 4 Named Justine 1 2
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