Let me tell you about my new doll.
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Let me tell you about my new doll.
Yes, you heard that right.
I say "transition is weird" so often I'm honestly sick of it, but wow, transition is fucken WEIRD.
So here's a story of growing up trans in a transphobic world, a solstice story about my amazing wife, a story about uncomfortable realizations and unlocking memories, a story about me curling up in a neotenous fugue state as I bawled my eyes out, and a story about my doll Elizabeth.
Dolls and Other Childish Things
My wife got me a cabbage patch doll as a solstice gift this year. I'm 47 years old. I started bawling as soon as I opened the package. This… is a complicated story. I could summarize the whole story with a short, reductive tl;dr: my wife got me the cabbage patch doll that I never...
Miriam Robern (www.miriamrobern.com)
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