McClellan, John

From Spearfish Lake Tales Wiki

In December 1993, when Paul McClellan was in St Priscillasville Vermont for the surgery that would complete his transition to Cheryl, John appeared in the waiting room, sitting on the couch, face in his hands, crying his eyes out, the sobs literally shaking his body. Eve realized that it was John, who cared so much about his younger brother Paul that he had tried everything to prevent him from going through with the SRS. Eventually she helps him to accept Cheryl as his sister, although he goes through a period of berating himself for having been an asshole.

When Cheryl gets out of the hospital, John, who is by then studying structural engineering at RPI insists that Eve and Cheryl stay at his apartment until the dorms are opened again at Syracuse. John again started berating himself, and Eve comforts him, ending up in his bed. One weekend, when the girls are back at Syracuse, John and his roommate Chad show up, and after that the four of them get together every other weekend, and go to Florida on their spring break.

In the fall of 1994, John and Eve are both accepted into PhD programs at Brown University in Providence; they make a spur-of-the-moment decision to get married to take advantage of married student housing.

After leaving Providence, they both move to Pennsylvania, north of Philadelphia, where John works with a bridge-building company.