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The Gift of Piercing Dears
As both of their daughters left college, alie and steve had finally begun to explore their gender fluidity more fully. They'd joined trans groups, began to see themselves as one in the swell of americans who identify as gender non conforming. On the very day that keeley left for c age, i said, ok, i'm going to give myself the gift of pierce dears. And so i pierced my ears. Each december, as those well meaning, red aproned salvation army workers began appearing outside malls ringing their bells, mattie would start bracing herself for coming home.