Table of Contents
Foreword
Part I: Childhood Innocence
Chapter One: Start at the Beginning
Chapter Two: Boys and Girls
Chapter Three: One Part Country
Part II: Adolescence
Chapter Four: City Boy, Country Girl
Chapter Five: Artistic Disguise
Part III Social Conscience
Chapter Six: Freedom Fighter
Chapter Seven: Men 101
Chapter Eight: Decade of My Youth
Chapter Nine: My First Pregnancy
Part IV: Lost Innocence
Chapter Ten: College life
Chapter Eleven: Cultural Transition
Chapter Twelve: The Hour Glass
Chapter Thirteen: End of Men
Part V: Uncommon Bonds
Chapter Fourteen: We’re a Family
Chapter Fifteen: First Family Christmas
Chapter Sixteen: My First Child
Chapter Seventeen: Full Catastrophe Living
Chapter Eighteen: The Proposal
Chapter Nineteen: Like Father, Like Son
Part VI: Married Life
Chapter Twenty: Transgender Sexuality
Chapter Twenty-one: Infidelity
Chapter Twenty-two: Common Ground
Part VII: Motherhood
Chapter Twenty-three: New Mom
Chapter Twenty-four: Bear the Cross
Chapter Twenty-five: Parenting Styles
Chapter Twenty-six: One Girl, One Boy
Chapter Twenty-seven: Mommy Play Day
Chapter Twenty-eight: Missing Messages
Part VIII: Gender Rebellion
Chapter Twenty-nine: Man in a Dress
Chapter Thirty: A Common Question
Chapter Thirty-one: Unraveling
Chapter Thirty-two: Last Showdown
Chapter Thirty-three: Family Therapy
Chapter Thirty-four: Revolution
Chapter Thirty-five: One Last Detail
Chapter Thirty-six: Shattered dreams
Part IX: Uncommon Origins
Chapter Thirty-seven: Wedding Day Blues
Chapter Thirty-eight: Expert Identity Disorder
Chapter Thirty-nine: Only Temporary
Chapter Forty: Faith
Chapter Forty-one: Bankrupt
Chapter Forty-two: Step One
Chapter Forty-three: Returning Home
Chapter Forty-four: Natural Consequences
Part X: Flowering Gardenia
Chapter Forty-five: Transition
Chapter Forty-six: The Abyss
Chapter Forty-seven: Child Support
Chapter Forty-eight: Order to Show Cause
Chapter Forty-nine: Woman’s Prerogative
Chapter Fifty: Last Stand
Final Chapter: Back to the Beginning
Appendix A: Confessions of a Cross-dresser
Appendix B: Your Affiant Sayeth Not
