wow.

[highlyeccentric]

this is an amazing story...

Then, in 1952 - a few months after Lee met Charlie - George Jorgensen's transformation to Christine Jorgensen made the front pages and created new possibilities for people like Lee. From then on, Lee said, he knew he had to have the operation.

He had never told Charlie, he said, "Because I was afraid you'd leave me."

Charlie knew how it felt to hate his own body, to want to change it. But this?

"I didn't understand how any man could want to do that, " he says. "But I saw how miserable Lee was. I wanted him to be happy." His voice breaks."I loved him."

Charlie looks up to the box on the refrigerator. He wipes his eyes. Switches pronouns.

"To this day, I love her."

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[blackbuttoneyes.livejournal.com]

That is nice timing! My Tolkien obsession came a bit later, by the time I was already in university. I read the books again before I saw the movie.