Charles remembered the days before the Great Shift when he used to have to lean over to kiss his wife Linda. Now he had to stand on his tiptoes to reach her lips. Not that he had any complaints about the Shift at all!
When the Shift happened, he and Linda were both in their 70s; they had been married for 50 years. Neither weren’t exactly how sure their new bodies were, but Charles often estimated they would now probably have another 50 years together.
Of course, one of the effects of the Shift was that they were both women now. One day, Linda asked Charles if it bothered him that they were both women now.
“Love is love,” Charles said with a shrug, “Never had a problem with gay people before; not gonna start now that I am one; never voted for the bigots against them either.”
Linda smiled. Her husband rarely talked politics; he just wasn’t the type. She had always thought he was somewhat conservative, so it surprised her -- but that was just Charles being Charles, even after 50 years, he still surprised her. It was one of the many things she had always loved about it -- finding new things to love about him.
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