(Voiceover)

Now I’m gonna tell you a true story

So listen up.

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(Song)

I was raised

In a heterosexual cis environment

And in the end

It caused me pain.

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I’m gonna tell you a story of how it went.

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It all started 3-4 years ago,

With the first obvious sign,

Wanting a heart necklace.

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I didn’t know what it meant at the time

I brushed it off.

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Now years later

It all comes back

More amplified.

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It all came out

Cause 1 single person

Opened me to the thought

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She was big on that stuff from what I saw

And it opened me to think more widely

Something I have never done before.

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I said the words

“I want to be a girl”

So suddenly at the time

But it was there all along

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For the rest of the year

She was my go to person

She made me feel welcomed

She made me feel good about myself.

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Then she left.

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The next year

I found another group

I found some new friends

Who were all big on the same stuff

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It hurt

Knowing my family

Would never see me for who I was

That’s what was opened to me

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I left them

I shouldn’t have

But it’s far too late

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It grew even more

And so did the thoughts

And things weren’t looking up.

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I tried my best

To reach out

And it worked a tiny bit

With my mother

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But what hurts the most

Is this could have all been prevented

If I hadn’t grown up

Not knowing all this stuff

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Maybe they were scared to teach me

Or maybe they didn’t know themselves

Or maybe it was nothing and I’m over thinking things

But I’ll have to wait and see on that

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(End voice)

And that has been my story

Thanks for sticking around

Goodbye for now