"... I'm sorry for crying, I just can't help myself. Oh Karen, I'm just so happy being a girl like this for you. I've never ever felt this way. I just don't know how to say it... I feel so complete, just so much my real self. Oh Karin, please don't be angry with me, but I... I love you so much." Then he cried some more.
She just held him, and as she did she too was filled with a feeling of completeness. She thought, 'I can be my real self with him, I don't have to play girl for some man; and Fran can be himself, he can be my girl. I've always wanted a girl and now I have one!' She took his face in her hands and kissed him deeply on his mouth. Then she said, "All right, girlfriend, enough sissy tears for now. You get my lunch ready fast or I'll get my belt, got it?"