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melissa is your typical pre-adolescent
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girl she’s very creative
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she loves to craft and sing that the
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music is always on she’s a very good
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sense of self she really understands who
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she is she’s very confident in herself
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we thought we were being very supportive
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allowing you know her to be who she is
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but come to realize you know a couple
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years later once we found the word
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transgender then it all really made
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sense and we just I think weren’t
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listening hard enough my other two
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children are very proud of her as well
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we don’t feel like it’s anything to hide
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and again their friends have been just
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as supportive you hear a lot of stories
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about teenagers and adults
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who
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who encountered violence or who
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encounter just fearing for safety in
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general and it just hope that she
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doesn’t have to encounter much of that
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with Melissa and her happiness can help
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another child feel very safe and
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confident and learned that what they’re
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going through is is not a fault is not
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anything that’s wrong with them and that
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they can live a completely whole healthy
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happy life just being who they are
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that’s that’s really what’s important it
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clicked for her even though she knew in
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her heart that she was in fact a girl
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when she finally saw herself um
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outwardly as she felt in word was when
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she was six she’d kind of put on a wig
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for Halloween that was very long and the
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same colors her hair and she saw herself
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in the reflection of the door and that
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just kind of made her sit ups you know
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straighter and she kind of kept looking
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at herself and smiling and we had never
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seen that light that she had is that
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night listening to your children no
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matter what age they are helping them
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along that journey and learning together
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is kind of more of the norm all you want
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is for your children to be happy
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