Origins: the obstetrician father, Watertown, and the street since seventeen

texture · UNDATED (backstory; B.S. into Subsidized era, Watertown MA)

• When: UNDATED (biographical backdrop; the Krause home is 412 Mount Auburn Street, Watertown; strung on heroin "since he first got strung at seventeen")
• What: Poor Tony Krause is the son of a Watertown MA obstetrician (his "late obstetric Poppa"; recurring images of the green gown, rubber gloves, cesareans, and a pager). The family home is 412 Mount Auburn Street in "horrid central Watertown." He has lived on the street as a gender-dysphoric ("gender-dysphoric") transvestite heroin addict since seventeen — a fixture of the Harvard Square boosting crews, colorful and "freakishly comely" in his red leather coat, auburn wig w/ removable chignon, spike heels, and feather boa. Until his YDAU collapse "someone kind had always found him charming, if things got dire enough to have to rent out his charms."