{"product_id":"late-blooming-my-gender-journey-a-memoir-9780692822739","title":"Late Blooming: My Gender Journey: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAllison Lenore Annalora (then known as Larry Duane Miller) was given up for adoption at birth in May 1955. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn January of 1992, after a lengthy search for her biological mother, in anticipation of their meeting for the first time, \"he\" started a journal. Both of \"his\" alcoholic adoptive parents had passed and at long last \"he\" hoped for closure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis journal evolved over time into a story of survival, courage, self-discovery, and happiness. As therapeutic as the process of writing this has been for her, everybody she knows encouraged her to tell her story to the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHer intent is that the reader will be inspired and enlightened and will understand that despite adversity, life can be beautiful.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe has survived being raised by alcoholic adoptive parents and an abusive childhood; struggling with gender identity issues; addiction being shunned by peers; the beginning of the AIDS epidemic; lifelong persecution by closed-minded people because \"he\" chose to live life openly as a feminine gay \"male\" and now as her transgender woman self. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter she experienced the joy of finding her birth family, Allison's beloved biological half-sister Leslie Shawn was brutally murdered. I\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003en the end, Allison discovered the courage to leave a loving, long-term gay relationship to transition to my true self. This is her story.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kristin Johnson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Allison Annalora\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/21\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 412\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.21lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.84d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780692822739\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Allison Annalora","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40100574527603,"sku":"0692822739","price":28.23,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_6f3f4cf8-23ce-421b-b83d-dd8cc495dc35.jpg?v=1653142982","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/late-blooming-my-gender-journey-a-memoir-9780692822739","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}