Jane and John

It is autumn. The year is 1985. Weather has been rainy and murky for days now.

One cold night, the silence is broken.

Seemingly out of nowhere, a stranger rushes towards the orphanage, carefully carrying a large basket. He is in a hurry. As he places the basket on the doorsteps of the building he knocks at the orphanage door and yells loudly hoping a nun inside would hear him. Lights suddenly turn on as everyone inside starts panicking, wondering what is the noise about. A nun rushes towards the main door, prepared with a makeshift weapon to confront a dangerous stranger, she vigorously opens the door -- only to find a single basket, with no-one else around.

Suddenly, infant cries could be heard. A baby. Nun looks down in front of her noticing a large basket, with a crying infant inside nonetheless. She gasps with a bit of relief and quickly carries the child inside away from cold. It was a girl.

This is a story about Jane, a time traveler.

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Given the name "Jane", baby grew up to be a wonderful cheery young lady. Throughout the years Jane kept wondering "Who is my mother?", "Who is my father?", but even though her origins are being shrouded by mystery she continued to live her life to the fullest.

At the age of 17 Jane finally finds a soulmate, a boyfriend. She met him deep into the local forest while having a walk.

It was love at first sight.

"My name is Jane, nice to meet you" she says.

A drifter drifted into her life, taking her emotions to the fullest and was always trying to bring her happiness -- but after a while, it turns out was not meant to be. They start quarreling about smallest things, arguing about everything, and eventually they break up. It was only after that Jane has found out she was pregnant.

9 months later Jane is rushed into hospital and she has complications, but against all odds she delivers a precious little baby. Even though doctors have let her know she has bled a whole lot and her chance of surviving are slim, Jane was utterly happy she has brought a wonderful new girl into this world.

During the same night as Jane was asleep from the exhaustion, window glass shatters. A shrouded person comes into the room rushing towards her, quickly picking up her baby girl without waking anyone up and silently runs away with the infant.

Next day, having finding out what happened to her baby and as devastated as she is, she finds out the next bad news. For some reason during the birth, all of her insides tangled up and chromosomes ended up messed up -- so as her last chance of survival doctors would have to have her go into emergent highly experimental surgery. Jane would have to become John. A gender transformation surgery in order to save her life.

After that she wasn't the same person anymore.

John, as the next given name, throughout the following years ended up becoming a bar drunkard. Tangled up with his emotions and confused by his own gender, he tried really hard to fix his life together, but always ending up getting drunk in a local bar while trying to forget his past. Depression mixed with alcohol lead him to have bar fights and overall becoming a empty person without any light or happiness in his life.

Many have tried to approach John, asking him about his life. "Who is your mother?", "Who is your father?", but John would simply stay quiet and drown his sorrow into alcohol, completely ignoring and trying to forget his past.

During a stormy night while being half drunk in the same bar, a bearded and very old looking part time bartender approaches him. "You look really familiar." he said. "John? I have something really important to tell you."