What We Remember — Emery C. Walters

If body and gender identity don't match, life is hard on people of any age. Hunter hasn't felt whole since realizing in his teens that he isn't Holly. As a teen with no hope, Hunter lived male in his head, but turned his female body over to sex, pregnancy, miscarriage.

By the age of thirty-nine, Hunter has saved enough to have Gender Confirmation Surgery, leading to legal identity as a gay man. His voiced deepens, and male pattern baldness sets in. He's finally seen as a man. But without the final genital surgery, he still feels incomplete and lonely.

He's in a bar nursing a martini as a tragedy unfold on the TV when a chance encounter from his long-ago past frightens him. Will Chris be another disappointment or a chance for happiness?