How It All Goes Down
- Henrik proposes marriage to Lili before he leaves for the United States.
- She is thrilled, but she is afraid that she is being dishonest with him, so she tells him she had surgery to make herself into a woman.
- And Henrik is like, remember, I don't care? I told you that years ago, babe.
- So she accepts his proposal.
- However, there's one last operation she wants first.
- She tells Henrik she will have the operation in Dresden, then meet Henrik in New York.
- And finally, Lili tells Greta.
- She tells her that not only is she in love, but she's having surgery, moving to New York, and getting married.
- That's a whole barrage of info bombs, but Greta takes all the news well.
- In fact, she is excited because she will pretty much now get to do the same thing, minus the surgery.
- Heck, they might even see each other again in New York.
- But—and this is a big but—Greta doesn't want Lili to have the surgery.
- Here's what the surgery is: Bolk wants to transplant a uterus into Lili so she might be able to have kids.
- "Nobody can make a man pregnant" (27.70), says Greta.
- Lili reminds Greta that they thought it was impossible for a man to become a woman, but that worked out fine; then she asks Greta to come with her to Dresden.
- But Greta refuses: "You'll have to go to Dresden alone" (27.86), she says.
- Carlisle agrees to accompany Lili instead.
- Before they part, Greta offers Lili Einar's paintings.
- But she doesn't want them. She feels like "everything around her belonged to someone else" (27.127), and she wants to leave her past behind. Literally.