Chapter 16Cara had been coming to the Trans Aware Support Group for three weeks now. They held their meetings every Tuesday night at eight at the Center on Halsted, a community gathering place that catered to all stripes of the LGBTQIA rainbow.
She’d found the group all on her own, searching online. It didn’t take long. Chicago, with its millions of citizens, had plenty to offer transgendered people, from sports leagues, to book clubs, to dining-out groups, and even a biking club that frequented the lakefront and the Green Bay Trail on warm-weather weekends.
Cara had found she needed more than Milton for support. He’d become a great friend—caring, kind, honest, and helpful—but he was now gone for the better part of the summer, across Lake Michigan in St. Joseph, where he had a summer pla
