“I just feel a little bit sad. Sad isn’t bleeding. Sad is okay.” He was wrong about that though because his happiness was his parents’ first concern. Rosie took a bottomless breath and whispered, “Do you want to be a girl, baby?” To which Penn, Tongo-tutored, appended, “Do you think you are a girl?” They waited, fathomless breath held, fathomless fear held, just barely, at bay. Claude only cried. “I don’t know.”
