Cristina Kathleen Ossers

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🌳🌳
my young adam.
rest in peace
rest in pride

hug our sweet dog every day
tell her too,
happy pride

polar bear hug
Burger King crown
New York New York--

tell your story in the clouds--
paint it bright and paint it soft

I’ll look up to the sky everyday
I’ll look up to you for ever
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my young adam, 
you’ll walk past the women’s locker room having just showered in the men’s for the first time 

your eyes will hover as long as it takes you to realize that you never have to enter that space again 

paradoxically significantly insignificant  shamelessly embarrassed to share and anxiously avoidant at what vulnerability will look like next
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my young adam, 
at age 30 you’ll sit in the same room as your hero and his friend will note that he didn’t look alright despite the world celebrating his breakthrough performance in 2007  and that’s going to really resonate with you
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Happy pride. 
Pride in anything and everything you need 
my young adam
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my young adam,
one story taller 
you will wake up to a 9am sunlight

a breeze like a gentle whisper 
carrying a reminder that you shared with friends and family the boy you’ve been all along 

you will see your childhood rewind and playback a nostalgic scene of quirkiness and curiosity 

you will depend on hormones not because of shame
but because you love your body so much
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my young adam, 

we’re putting every part of you to rest properly 

with care, and 

the time to recycle into something new 

always remember, “the expression of gender characteristics, including identities, that are not stereotypically associated with one’s assigned sex at birth is a common and culturally diverse human phenomenon [that] should not be judged as inherently pathological or negative.”

and I’ll remember your dreams 

artist,
 
lawyer, 
give me a min to recall your desires with this 
that urge to argue 
a 
reason for perspective 
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my young adam 
28 happy birthdays to you on this day 

today I celebrate too  two years
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