My Best Guy Friend Became My Best Girlfriend

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My Best Guy Friend Became My Best Girlfriend
Jezebel
15 June, 2011


http://jezebel.com/5811808/my-best-guy-friend-became-my-best-girlfriend


Melissa Jeltsen — My friend Juno and I both need to pee. Bad. As the movie credits roll, we shuffle out of the darkened theatre and book it to the restrooms. The men's entrance is on the left, women's on the right. This is the moment when we split and pivot towards our respective labels, like we've done at the countless bars and pit-stops that have peppered our eight-year friendship. But not tonight. For the first time, we go through the same door together.

Until he was 32-years-old, my best friend was a man. She's now a woman. And while she adjusts to this new reality, our relationship is shifting as we search for a new balance.