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Talking to Myself: Poems from a Transgender Woman During Transition Maartje Hensen past the sleeping giantMy joy, my tears, are sincere. Is this girl real? I really like being a girl. I don't miss the male me. I don't miss the him and he. Away from him, I'm finally free. Since birth, Lukcia Patricia Sullivan lived a false existence first as a boy, and then as a man. What no one knew is that she desperately wanted to be a girl. But as she grew, she learned that this desire had to be hidden and never discussed. Still, she knew she was a girl in heart and