Change of plans (Part 5)

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Tom returned to the park day after day. Things slowly returned to normal, and crowds became a daily occurrence. It was on a particularly packed day when a man named Grant approached Tom. The two hit it off immediately. After several months of dating, they each knew they found “the one.” Tom still had to confess that he was a man before the Shift. It didn’t affect Grant in the slightest; he explained that he was a woman before the Shift as he got down on one knee. Wedding bells were in the couple’s future, and the motherly urges Tom had been feeling since the Great Shift would soon be realized.