For her part, Shore doesn’t fret much about what she will wear. Her look — neat slacks, casual pullover, and a short, practical haircut that fits under her scrub cap — hasn’t really changed since she came out. "This is the way I always dressed," she says. Then, with the confidence of a woman truly comfortable in her own skin, she adds, "but there’s a different way I inhabit it now."
Tamara Jones is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer living in northern Virginia.
Rebecca Webber, a New York City-based writer, contributed to this report.
Originally published in MORE magazine, March 2009.
 

 
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