Grimlock ♥ Ultra Magnus

I'm stressing out about not having my wallet: while everything seems to be okay - that is, no one is using the credit cards - I'm just stressed.  This book makes everything okay, though. 

Although we got to the point where everything turns out okay, and this hits all the right notes.   So basically, I'm doing this: 

I'll probably go into work all teary eyed, and they'll ask what's wrong and I'll be like, 'it's so beautiful!' *sniff, sniff*

Gigi/Melissa is told that the world isn't always kind to those who are different, a lesson I learned all too well, and keep learning as I keep growing.   This is one tough character, though.   It's not that she doesn't get emotional, or weepy, or that things don't get to her. It's that she keeps on going, and she knows what and who she is, and she doesn't allow the world to convince her otherwise, or that it's better to be anything other than the person she truly is. 

Oh, Melissa, I totally get that.   The world has been trying to convince me to conform for a long, long time, and while I wish I could in some ways - man, would it make my life easier! - I'm so much more unhappy when I'm trying to fool myself into being the same.