"You know, the truth of a desire is like fire. When she was a child, she wasn't really a little boy or a little girl. She was a wild horse. At eight, she thought she was Esmeralda, and at nine, she fell in love with an altar girl. In seventh grade, she learned that the word "dyke" should never be uttered in the playground, and in high school that orgasm doesn't sound like something you'd read about in the "special sex" supplement of Elle Magazine.