“That is remarkable,” I said. My eyes panned around the room. “Look, do you mind if we turn on another light or something? It’s very dark in here.”
“No, we can’t,” Alanna replied. “All these condo buildings are so close together, and we don’t have any curtains for the balcony windows. If the neighbours were to look over and spot Lesley, it could be very bad. I don’t know what would happen.”
This brought me back to the question I had asked. “Alanna, what are you guys going to do?”
“Well, I’ll tell you what we’re not going to do. We’re not just going to hand Lesley over to the authorities so they can cast them back onto the streets to get beaten to death for the simple fact of being a…” and here she hesitated on the term. “…for being a hermaphrodite?”
Indeed. Yes. That nomenclature st
