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How letting go of assumptions led me to one of the most genuine connections of my life.

Here’s a blog post draft based on the title Title: My Best Friend’s TS Sister: An Unexpected Friendship I Didn’t See Coming

That hour changed everything. She wasn’t “Jake’s sister” or “his trans sister.” She was Morgan—a software engineer who cried at dog adoption videos, who made sourdough from scratch during the pandemic, and who had a laugh that sounded like pop rocks.

And then there was his older sister, Morgan.

We talked about her transition for exactly four minutes. She mentioned it casually, the way someone might mention they moved from Ohio. “It’s just part of my story,” she said. “Not the whole book.”