But in other regards she had thoroughly thrown off the military custodial yoke. She looked relaxed in a low-cut open-topped black and white ensemble set off by a slash of bright choral lipstick.
Manning’s new appearance gives a more complete sense of her identity as a transgender woman. In a sequence of carefully choreographed Twitter posts since her release early on Wednesday morning, the only view of herself that had been glimpsed was her hand holding a glass of Dom Pérignon champagne and her black and white Converse shoes making their first steps of freedom.
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