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Oh, my goodness! So much love for Lucille! I adore her self-reflection here. I’ve known several people who were born missing limbs like her. How they viewed themselves and their situation seemed to come down very much to the families who raised them. Most have had very positive views of themselves. Of course, that could be said of anyone who was born with something that made them stand out—beyond having physically different bodies.
Is Brendan about to spill the beans to Lucille about “Buddy” at last?
Is she going to be upset by his secrecy and recklesness? (he tried to revive a dead person, that’s an ethically hairy problem ), is she going to be accepting? even become some kind of aunt/motherly figure for future Sulla?
In the future events she seemed to be still a close friend to Brendan, but I don’t recall her interacting much with Sulla.
But that’s probably because their own businesses and lives took them apart. If someone can help brendan give Buddy a more appropriate body, that’s Luce.
It seems kind of weird for her to first lead Brandon to believe she’s an amputee, then say tht she’s not. Like, if he had assumed that, I can imagine her teasing him, but in fact the assumption he made was correct, based on his knowledge of her – that she has no sense of loss associated with her body.
Like if she said soething like “I could introduce you to some of my clients,” and then he reacted as if he was being insensitive to her personally, then she might say something like “Oh yes, the agony of limb attenuation” or somthing before correcting him. But it seems weird for her to tease him for a wrong assumption he didn’t make.
This is great stuff. I like seeing the story of the family adjusting to the trans person coming out – loss is definitely a strong emotion and one you have to work through. Looks like Brendan is approaching this right, at this point.
Thanks so much for the story!