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À savoir. Our boy/girl (s'il le veut),--Damn, I forget his name (because I am old and don't believe in the non-cosmetic actuality of transgender--to me he is, obviously, a doll-maker who has personified, and identified with, his dolls: the old Geppetto/Pinocchio syndrome), whatever, [he] is a very knowledgeable Source of What is Thought. That's what matters about him; not whatever paltry token of validation I might submit to him for his extra-biological gender-identification by calling him her. It's not my place to indulge him, but I love what he has to say.

¿"Natalie"?--maybe, in a (shudder, retch) sexual context; but I beg to be excused from contemplating anything of the sort--I call him Nate.