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They listened to the radio for a few minutes more, then started the long walk out of London. Lola held JR's hand, whispering something in his ear.
"I'm not Lola anymore. I'm a boy. A man. I'm Chan. I've found out your secret, so there's mine."
JR smiled and gave his hand a squeeze. "You're leaving Lola here?"
"Yeah," Chan said. "I can't deal with being her a second longer. I'm a man."
He would never get to be a boy, for real. He couldn't change his legal gender and physically he would stay the same, but growing older, day by day.
He wouldn't see his parents for ten years.
They heard that Jane died two winters later.
Alex went on to lead a major revolutionary movement, and JR worked treating plague victims.
And when, eventually, JR faced Aron again, they sobbed in each other's arms. They hated hating each other.