I started reading the story, and it is well written. I have not finished it because my feelings got too intense, especially when Eve was thinking about offing some of the perps in her life. I have had those feelings and I think about a clip full would do it. Sanity finally took over and I haven't thought about it for a long long time.

Things are changing, and perhaps getting better for us now but if I had to write a manual for Transitioning one of the chapters would be about just disappearing, and doing an identity death to rival that of the FBI witness protection program. In retrospect, I think it is just better to walk away and not look back; let them think you are dead.

It had to be incredibly painful for Eve to go back to her old stomping grounds. I have contacted about a dozen of my old classmates and every single one of them rejected me. Even the ones that don't reject you right away, will often do it after they think about it a little. I have to wonder about her sanity in sparing a single one of them a single breath. She'd never be my counselor.

I feel really discouraged in dealing with people who use magical thinking and believe that it will somehow work out, because mostly it does not. And no, I don't want any PMs about this, nor do I want to talk to anyone on skype or anywhere else about it. I wish I could spare just one person the pain of all this but I have tried and no one wants to listen. The rest of you, I wish the best, but don't come to me to complain.

Much peace

Khadijah Gwen Ellen Boucher