It reminds Akane, somehow, of all those times when she was little and she'd been invited to take a boy's part in country dancing or a class play or-- any of those things, because she'd been 'as good as.' Except Connie hasn't said anything to her like that. Connie treats her like a girl, like the girl she is, even if she's horrible at being one. Even if she's outclassed by a boy who isn't really a girl, who only has a girl's body sometimes.

Why couldn't Ranma have really been a girl?

She takes Connie's hand and the bridge of the song together.

"Casual moments like these mean the most to me
Treasured times that don't need any key.
In the album of my heart I keep,
Old times stay like new...