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"I hate my name, I'm thinking of changing it," gawky, awkward Candace confesses to the dishy young man who takes the seat next to her at a rowdy Midwestern bar. Handsome, buoyant Brandon Teena knows just what she means.
"Sometimes," he says, all casual confidence, "it helps." Sometimes, too, a life not like our own can shine a clear and discomforting light on the hidden recesses of the human heart, and it's hard to think of a life more different, or more illuminating, than the one lived by Brandon Teena, the charming youthful Lothario of Lincoln, Neb., a young man for whom changing names had been just the beginning. click here to read the rest of the review
