The Public Universal Friend

The friend rises from a death bed, and tells the friend's family no longer refer to me as jemima. This would have all been raised some eyebrows in a high school ten years ago. It's using the idea of clerical or angelic robes, to just get away from any gender convention. Are angels gendered? Well, that', that's a good point. I mean, there is, if the friend is identifying the friend's self with angels. Angels are often depicted as kind of sexless.