Anne, my heart truly leapt for joy reading this as I see in your words a true understanding of yourself that few of us may ever come to realize. The words give me hope that I may sometime also have these words in my heart, even if i cannot put them down on paper as eloquently or with as much depth of understanding.
I have only ten months of accepting my life as a crossdresser, and even less as a transgendered person, and very little time being exposed to the Barbara within me that is truly woman. i yearn for the understanding you have presented us.
I really lack words to respond in depth to the wonderful life experience you just shared. My one feeling was this. I am standing at a gravesite. There is a wonderful assemblage of my sisters surrounding me. I open a bottle of the old country's drink, and pour the first drinks on the freshly laid earth. In almost universal voice we say, He is dead. Long live Anne, and we all take a drink, and leave so much happier for it.
Love and Hugs, Barbara
