A psychiatric aide falls in love with a patient in this short story by Louise Erdrich.
Other freshmen were already moving into their dormitory rooms when we arrived, with their parents helping haul. I saw boxes of paperbacks, stereo equipment, Dylan albums and varnished acoustic guitars, home-knitted afghans, none as brilliant as mine, Janis posters, Bowie posters, Day-Glo bedsheets, hacky sacks, stuffed bears. But as we carried my trunk up two flights of stairs terror invaded me.
I think I want a sex-change operation. I want to be a man so I won’t have to put up with this shit.” “I’m not giving you shit.” Her mouth gaped mockingly. “Oh, look at you, trying to be tough. You’re not tough. You’re, like, a little college girl, right? Who the hell cares? I’m from the university, too. I have a Ph.D. Pretty Hot Dick. I’m a man, posing as a woman. You want proof?” Then her face closed in, bored. “I’m just kidding. Get the fuck away from me.” “I’m sorry,” I said to her.
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