Bad is not an absolute, but a relative term. Ask the robber who used the cash he stole to feed his infant; the rapist who was sexually abused as a child; the kidnapper who truly believed he was saving a life. And just because you break the law doesn't mean you have intentionally crossed the line into evil. Sometimes the line creeps up on you, and before you know it, you're standing on the other side.

I have come to believe that this life I'm wearing will never really fit.

Kid says to me, "You play baseball? What position? Left out?" and gets a big laugh from the rest of the class. Kid is only one person out of 6.792 billion humans on this planet. This planet is only one-eighth of the solar system, whose sun is one of two billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy. Put it that way, the comment loses it's importance.

...when they look at me, I so badly want to be who they see.

Sometimes, all it takes to become human again is someone who can see you that way, no matter how you present on the surface.

Some women are meant to change the world while others are meant to hold it together.

They don't like the thought of someone else making demands on the person whom they see as belonging entirely to them.