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US, OK: Becoming Katie
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Becoming Katie
By Cary Aspinwall, World Staff Writer
Published: 5/8/2011
BIXBY - The lone memento of Luke Hill's unhappy existence hangs like a specter in his former bedroom, piercing blue eyes haunting from a 12-year-old portrait.
It's Luke at age 4, in a blue silk kimono, a glossy studio snapshot from when the family lived in Japan, during Dad's service in the US Marine Corps.
This is Katie's room now, and the picture of Luke hanging on her wall is the only one she'll allow her mother to display in the house.
Katie asked her mom to destroy the rest. She doesn't want to be reminded of Luke, his miserable existence as a puzzle piece that never fit.
Luke is just a memory in the minds of those who loved him, the blue-eyed ghost in the portrait.
Katie Hill puts on makeup inside her room in Bixby. Photos by ADAM WISNESKI/Tulsa World
Katie is flesh and bone, long hair and limbs, breasts and eyelashes. A happy 16-year-old who believes it's not her fault she was born into the wrong body.
And by burying Luke and becoming Katie, she has righted what nature made wrong.
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Becoming Katie
By Cary Aspinwall, World Staff Writer
Published: 5/8/2011
BIXBY - The lone memento of Luke Hill's unhappy existence hangs like a specter in his former bedroom, piercing blue eyes haunting from a 12-year-old portrait.
It's Luke at age 4, in a blue silk kimono, a glossy studio snapshot from when the family lived in Japan, during Dad's service in the US Marine Corps.
This is Katie's room now, and the picture of Luke hanging on her wall is the only one she'll allow her mother to display in the house.
Katie asked her mom to destroy the rest. She doesn't want to be reminded of Luke, his miserable existence as a puzzle piece that never fit.
Luke is just a memory in the minds of those who loved him, the blue-eyed ghost in the portrait.
Katie Hill puts on makeup inside her room in Bixby. Photos by ADAM WISNESKI/Tulsa World
Katie is flesh and bone, long hair and limbs, breasts and eyelashes. A happy 16-year-old who believes it's not her fault she was born into the wrong body.
And by burying Luke and becoming Katie, she has righted what nature made wrong.
( Read more... )