When I woke up the next morning, my girlfriend was gone. My amazement at this soon turned to bewilderment, but just before I was about to go mad with despair and grief, a comforting calm descended on me, quite unexpectedly. And although the tears over my girlfriend's departure - in my former male body - still flowed, I managed to get and hold myself. From now on I would go through life as an Aurora, and try to shape my new future. Since I was now fully acquainted with the work of my former girlfriend (head nurse in the emergency room at the hospital), I was able to get through the day fairly unobtrusively, without really noticing my sadness. Only a young all-round surgeon in the emergency room (Richard was his name, he had deliberately chosen this direction) noticed my "camouflaged" sadness, and during the evening coffee (we were both on late shifts) he heard me very carefully and diplomatically. And although I really didn't feel like talking about it, I told him the whole story (excluding the swap element, of course, because that would of course be surprising!). Smiling, he spoke to me comfortingly, took my hands tenderly gently ("If you allow me?!") and managed to really help me return to myself. And as it happens not only in threepenny novels, but even in real life now and then, one thing led to another, and after a courtship of almost two years we set a wedding date. Our wedding was, as we were: modest in size, modest, only for our close friends and immediate family members, but oh so heartwarming! And the crowning glory of our love came when a year later we were blessed with the birth of our first daughter.... .
(Several decades later, in the Indian reservation: The former Aurora, now called Nsho-Tshi, and her husband were busy consulting with the young nature reserve keeper, called Lilian, about the measures to be taken to shut down the commercial gas and oil companies. out of the reserve and to see to it that the quality of the reserve's forest would be improved. Lilian stayed with them for practical reasons, and during one of these conversations her parents came up. Nsho-Tshi then discovered to her astonishment ( which, as an Indian, she managed to hide very well!) that Lilian was the daughter of the "new" Aurora, whom she had given her former body. Overwhelmed with emotion, gratitude and love, she sent a prayer heavenward, that they should all so much were blessed with so much love..... . - Tom -
When I woke up the next morning, my girlfriend was gone. My amazement at this soon turned to bewilderment, but just before I was about to go mad with despair and grief, a comforting calm descended on me, quite unexpectedly. And although the tears over my girlfriend's departure - in my former male body - still flowed, I managed to get and hold myself. From now on I would go through life as an Aurora, and try to shape my new future.
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And as it happens not only in threepenny novels, but even in real life now and then, one thing led to another, and after a courtship of almost two years we set a wedding date. Our wedding was, as we were: modest in size, modest, only for our close friends and immediate family members, but oh so heartwarming! And the crowning glory of our love came when a year later we were blessed with the birth of our first daughter.... .
(Several decades later, in the Indian reservation: The former Aurora, now called Nsho-Tshi, and her husband were busy consulting with the young nature reserve keeper, called Lilian, about the measures to be taken to shut down the commercial gas and oil companies. out of the reserve and to see to it that the quality of the reserve's forest would be improved. Lilian stayed with them for practical reasons, and during one of these conversations her parents came up. Nsho-Tshi then discovered to her astonishment ( which, as an Indian, she managed to hide very well!) that Lilian was the daughter of the "new" Aurora, whom she had given her former body. Overwhelmed with emotion, gratitude and love, she sent a prayer heavenward, that they should all so much were blessed with so much love..... . - Tom -