Elizabeth and George

Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!! · Jun 4, 2013

The Charleston W.Va Gazette did a three-part story on a homeless man/woman who was a fixture in the city.
Turns out the person was a musician - a singer/songwriter - who was kinda well-known in the industry in the 1980s and then dropped out of site. Mental health issues.

http://www.wvgazette.com/News/201306010016

"I'm a singer-songwriter," she once told me in her husky yet soft voice. I crouched one day in June 2006 to say hello as she sat beside a mailbox along Virginia Street. "I'm recording songs to send to Geffen Records."
Crazy, I thought. But she was nice in an unexpected way, given how she looked.
It would turn out Elizabeth was not some mad-as-a-hatter street person, although she apparently wrestled with mental-health issues.
She was also, biologically speaking, not a woman, although the course of her adult life was defined by her trying to be one, in her dress and in her mind.
She was born George L. Bartlett in Lafe, Ark. And she was a singer-songwriter and reportedly quite a good one.
Ric Ocasek, leader of the prominent late '70s and early '80s band The Cars, thought so highly of George "Geo" Bartlett's music that he once tried to find him through a shout-out in the pages of Rolling Stone magazine, remarking that "his songs are amazing."
That was in the years before everything that happened, happened. That was before a son and beloved brother disappeared from an Oklahoma family's embrace for more than a quarter-century.
For this is a tale of not just one person, but a family. And of a city that helped to reunite them. This was a family that never stopped praying George would reappear someday.
And he did reappear. But as someone who now called herself "Leah Elizabeth Wingfield."
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