“I'm not responsible for my child and who she's become, but I am responsible to her, and she is a wonderful person. I love her. I don't know if you need to know anything else, but that's all I need to know.”

— Andrew Solomon

--Carol
Source: Far from the Tree, Ch. 11 Transgender, p 671.

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American journalist 1963

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