A Familiar Story?

This story comes from the "Reading Eagle".
"It was a bedroom that resembled one like most other teenage boys had
in the 1960s.

Sports memorabilia plastered on the walls, photos of Pittsburgh
Pirates greats Roberto Clemente and Bill Mazeroski. Model cars and
airplanes - particularly from the World War I era.

And hanging above the bed on the ceiling, a classic poster of a young
Raquel Welch.

But the teenager who called the Valley Forge-area bedroom his own was
holding a secret.

"I prayed every single night, 'God, when I wake up, can you please
make me female?' " recalled the Rev. Barbara K. Peronteau, a
transgender Berks County resident who began the transition from male
to female nearly two years ago. "At the height of our male
testosterone flowing, and my prayer was to wake up and look like
Raquel Welch."

Rev. Barbara K. Peronteau

The story brought back memories of a vacation long ago. I probably was about 14 and we were on a family trek and we kept passing and being passed by another car with a equally young beautiful dark haired girl in the back seat.
My feelings today are as vivid as the day it happened. I literally ached inside to be that girl.
The look on the Rev. Peronteau's face says it all-some of her pain is gone!