Deaths and Entrances

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Deaths and Entrances
Written by Josephine Emery   
Wednesday, 23 September 2009 15:28

http://sxnews.e-p.net.au/feature/deaths-and-entrances-6172.html

There's no easy to tell family members about transitioning from male to female. Some take the news openly; others not quite so. Author Josephine Emery recalls the moment she told her mother what she had been afraid to say all those years.

I was here in this small coastal South Australian town to be with my mother one more time before she died.

I had called her nine or so months earlier from my apartment in an inner-eastern suburb of Sydney.