A truly amazing short story that I found myself relating to so so SO much. Both as someone who's trans and as someone who comes from a small village in the countryside of East Europe. While my family wasn't religious, everyone else around me was and it definitely infected my perception of who I can be. And when I managed to escape aka to move for university, I also felt like the main character, shedding my skin and blooming into a new person that's been begging to be let free for so long.