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“All right, then. Let’s shatter illusions.” — Tommy, to Philippa

She felt the caress all the way to her toes. In places that weren't even her toes. Every inch of her body seemed alive to the possibility of Tommy's touch…and her cold dead heart gave its first unmistakable flutter. Several flutters. Possible apoplexy.

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"Thomasina, as in, you were christened Thomas, but feel as though you are a woman?"

"No," he said. "Thomasina as in, I was born Thomasina. Sometimes I'm more like a man, and sometimes I'm more like a woman, but mostly I feel like... both. And neither. . . . I've always been more comfortable in men's attire, but beneath these pantaloons, I've the same parts you do."

More precisely, Philippa had no interest in starting a romance with any man she’d ever met.

She loved the cool wind whipping through her short brown hair and the cozy warmth of the linen cravat tied about her neck. She also adored swinging a heavy hammer at an anvil, blustering along as a myopic old woman, or mincing about as a helpless maiden. … Tommy had dreamed about what sort of person she might become or what post she might hold when she grew up. She never imagined the answer would be all of them!