00:02Dear Alok, Don't worry, you still listen to the same songs when you get dressed in the
00:08morning, and I say dress because you are wearing dresses now and confidence too, which is weird
00:14because you spent half of your life trying to erase yourself and almost succeeded. Remember
00:19that night you screamed to the stars because you needed someone to talk to about the budding
00:24flower in your throat? I want you to remember that feeling, but forget the word. Who you
00:29are is far too complicated, far too exquisite, and far too lovely to ever be contained by language,
00:36let alone English. I wish I could tell you that everything is going to be okay, but it won't.
00:42You and I both know that some part of us died when a doctor told mom we were a boy,
00:47but what
00:47I can tell you is that the first sight of resistance was your body, and you have been resisting ever
00:52since, and there is something beautiful and defiant about that. Love, Alok.
