This is my dress for 2/27/2021. I hadn't really thought about it until I looked in the mirror in the ladies room at the grocery store and realized I had worn a black bra under a white dress. Oops!
I was playing that CD I'm holding in the car today. I recorded that CD in December of 2014 as a Christmas / New's gift for friends and family. The title on the copy I'm holding ids "Rachel's Happy New Year". Since I was only out to a few people at the end of 2014, many people got a CD titled "Scott's Happy New Year".
2014 was really the first year of my life that I really found happiness. When one of the songs on the CD titled "It's a Beautiful Day" came on I told Acadia the story about that particular song.
Starting around the first of September 2014 I volunteered at the front desk at the Utah Pride Center every Tuesday morning. As a side note: I didn't dare let the neighbors see me in women's clothes at that point, so I would wear a men's T-shirt and jeans over them and then take them off when I was stopped at red lights.
Anyway, I was playing a very old cassette tape in the car on the way to the Pride Center and the song "It's a Beautiful Day" started playing. I looked around at the beautiful sky, the sun was out and I realized that it was an absolutely beautiful day. And I was on my way to the Utah Pride Center that was like heaven on Earth at that point because I could be ME, a WOMAN!!
I cried all the way to and from Smith's Marketplace tonight thinking what that CD represents: the first year of my life that I found joy and happiness!
I'm absolutely certain that was the very first time in my life that I ever thought it was a BEAUTIFUL DAY!
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