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Waking from a dream of Winterly, I turn in the bed and shift my position to ease my sore back. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And back into dreams I go...<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

-<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For some reason, I am in drag. I am wearing a black bodysuit and corset, covered by a long draped coat in ivory. I wear a white bob wig.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I do not know why I am wearing what I am wearing. I feel self-conscious about my weight and waistline, even with the corset. I draw the coat around me as nonchalantly as I can manage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Somewhere downtown at an event, possibly a wedding shower. I am sitting at a round table, chatting with a young woman and  man seated next to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She is dark-haired and has an appealing, if somewhat conventionally contemporary, appearance. Like a secondary charter in a TV<\/span> drama about corporate attorneys. Not my type and yet I find myself drawn to her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her companion is effeminate and flirting with me as we talk, touching my forearm or shoulder to make his point. I don\u2019t want to embarrass him and, always trying to adapt to others, I return the same flirty energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s a pleasant conversation and I am enjoying the back and forth with each of them. I\u2019m even starting to feel comfortable in my drag ensemble. Empowered even.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the man excuses himself and gets up to leave, I am genuinely sorry to see him go. Though I am not the slightest bit gay, it\u2019s always nice to be noticed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I get up and shift into his seat, turning to the woman. The flirty pose is gone and I am more my authentic self, just chatting with her a little more directly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She is clearly confused. After a few minutes of conversation,  she stops me and asks \u201cWhat is going on?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c<\/span>What do you mean?\u201d
<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She gestures after her departed friend, then back to my outfit. \u201cAll of this, I mean, why are you acting like this with me... aren\u2019t you gay?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I tell her I am straight and I apologize for the confusion my outfit might have caused.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c<\/span>It\u2019s not that,\u201d she says, implying that she finds it somewhat attractive\u2014or, at least, interesting. \u201cI just didn\u2019t think you were interested.\u201d

I tell her I am and for a moment we both sit and consider where to take the conversation from this new common ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

-<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And then I wake up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Waking from a dream of Winterly, I turn in the bed and shift my position to ease my sore back.  And back into dreams I go... \u2014 For some reason, I am in drag. I am wearing a black bodysuit and corset, covered by a long draped coat in ivory. I wear a white bob wig. I do [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[910,513],"class_list":["post-1075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dreams","tag-drag","tag-flirting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1076,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075\/revisions\/1076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}