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Lesbian slip

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Tangren Alexander
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Abstract

We were relaxing after supper, my daughter, who was ten, and my ninety-six-year-old grandmother, and I. Marcella had long known that I was a lesbian, and in her simple child's way understood perfectly. Grandma was another matter; I would have to wait for her to die before I could be open in the family about who I was. She could never be told. I loved her; there seemed no reason to distress her, who kept herself so deliberately innocent about the facts of life, let alone their infinite variety.

Type
LESBIAN CREATIVITY
Information
Hypatia , Volume 7 , Issue 4: Special Issue: Lesbian Philosophy , Fall 1992 , pp. 14 - 30
Copyright
Copyright © 1992 by Hypatia, Inc.

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