" But, um"--she squints over at me--"if I looked like a boy when we met, like if I was a boy then, would you still have wanted me?"

To make her laugh, I almost joke about my failed seduction of her doppelgänger brother, but stop myself. Leigh deserves much better than that, and needs me to be better. So I tell her what I've decided. "We're not just our bodies, right? You'd still be you. "

― Rebecca Podos , Like Water