Journals/Devin's Diary Excerpt 2

918 Hoadly

So Mom left. She left us. Need to get used to writing it. I mean I could tell she was unhappy, but I thought that was just cuz of me, cuz I'm such a mess and maybe it IS? But I'm not so sure cuz I didn't even have words for this stuff until she dug up all those pamphlets. Why do that, then leave?

Plus where'd she get them? No-one in Redacre is going around talking about "enbys" or pronouns or knows how to spell "dysphoria." I mean there's a whole VOCABULARY for this outside of this crap-hole town!!! But staying here means I'll probably grow old and die saying it all wrong. Drape my coffin with the wrong F-ing flag or something.

They say Bells knows someone out of town - they're like in touch. At school she seems seriously PO'd. I have to trust someone, so I choose to trust an angry girl.