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About a year ago, Ashley sent her parents a letter asking them to call her Ashley. At the time, she left open the possibility that her parents could still call her by a childhood nickname sometimes, Snooks-Pooks. But her parents now call her Snooks all the time, so Ashley wrote her parents a second letter to more firmly ask them to call her Ashley and to remind them that Snooks-Pooks isn't a replacement for her name.

Ashley chats with Jay about her parents' reactions to the letter, in separate talks with her dad and then with her mom. Ashley hoped her second letter's illustrations of gender dysphoria might help sway her parents, but their views remain just as headstrong as ever.

The next step is to ask her parents to call her Ashley when they refer to her as Snooks over the phone -- and if they decline, she plans to end the call. Since Jay and Ashley talked, this has already happened once.

Ashley introduces Jay to ScrapeRite plastic razor blades, a dodad that may sound butch at the