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RamingoWS27 октября 2018 г.As much as the adored girls called our town old-fashioned, no one made a move to change it. There was no room for me to ask to be called both him and her. There were already too many people who thought I was just a failure as a girl. They wouldn`t listen long enough for me to say that I had never been one. I was a boy who had to bear the same assumption so many girls endured, that I was simply the wrong kind of girl.
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I was five, maybe six when I first saw the swans. I remember because Roja was still having her tantrums, so she couldn`t have been older than four. Our parents were trying to train them out of her, our mother by clutching her arm when she wailed for more than a few minutes, our father by crouching to meet her eyes and talking in a voce that was low, and neither harsh nor gentle.
"You can scream and cry if you want," he said. "But what you have in you is power."
His words were so level and sure, they made Roja quiet. Her tears froze on her cheeks.
"You let it wring you and throw you around like you`re a doll," Papa said. "And if that`s all you let it do, you`ll be a fool forever. Because that power, that anger in you, that is the best thing you have." He gave her a nod as proud as if she were a son. "So claim it. Pick yourself up and use it."160