Forever and Two Days More: Our 50-Year Journey
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After a lifelong battle with dysphoria, the answer was to transition…
From a young age, Cady knew she was a girl. The only problem was that no one else saw her that way.
Life moved on, but the dysphoria never left Cady. When Cady was about 50 years old, she and Cathy, her spouse and the love of her life, knew that something had to change. Thus began Cady’s journey to transition into the woman she knew she was, and for Cady and Cathy to grow as a transitioning couple.
Through love letters written 50 years ago to entries from Cady’s journal, this memoir is the story of Cady and Cathy’s never-ending love, forever and two days more.
About the Authors:
About the Authors:
Cadance and Catherine Anderson have known each other since high school and have been married since 1974. They are lifetime Washingtonians, and have lived in Tukwila, Washington, for more than 50 years. Growing up, they spent summers with their grandparents: Cady spent the time on her grandparents' cattle ranch near Thorp, Washington, and Cathy spent her time on her grandparents' apple orchard near Quincy, Washington. Thorp and Quincy are about 50 miles apart and separated by the Columbia River in Eastern Washington. And we love to wear matching tie-dye.
Introduction
This book is set up with parallel, mostly alternating paragraphs covering both Cady and Cathy's same-time experiences. These paragraphs are interposed with other people and experiences. At times, Cady's pronoun use will flow back and forth as she slowly comes to terms with who she truly is. In any event, Cady has always been Cady regardless of other misplaced monikers assigned to her. Cady will not be deadnamed it serves no good purpose, instead. C---- will be used when the need arises.
The book takes place in the time of the Covid plague and recalls the story of Cathy and Cady’s meeting each other, becoming a couple, and marriage. Its conclusion is announced as “So closes the autumn of 1974 and part one of our book.”
Part two is an interlude of what happened after the wedding, birth of children, and middle age. This comes to an end with the sharing portion of Cady’s personal journal started in August 2005.
Cady’s personal journal takes over at this point to chronicle all of the events leading to and completing transition. These are the words she wrote day by day as the whirlwind of dysphoria carried the couple from lightning strike to a slow and at times unsteady transition.
The spark that set off this book was the uncovering of forgotten love letters from the summer of 1973… They lay doubled-boxed in a dark corner of our basement, hidden and forgotten under piles of stuff that had accumulated from years of living in our home. It was just by chance in October of 2020, while we were rummaging in the basement, that we came across a very thick cardboard box sealed with all kinds of tape. We had no clue what was inside so imagine our surprise when we opened up the dusty box and there inside were smaller boxes of our old love letters! By the time the Summer of 1973 had waned toward autumn, our love for each had grown to us both adding “Forever and Two Days More” at the close of each letter. It became our code for our vow to trust and love endlessly. We realized the gift we our past selves had sent us. Here, coupled with my journal, was the story of us, waiting to be written for some great-grandchild or other family in need of it…
Cady and Cathy
Forever and two days more
Love everlasting
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