Thank you Lynne for stopping by, and I will hook you up with Joe, who if I know him is already sending you a message. I will be happy to tell you more about Aent Mamie, I think we all have one.
So now, I want to tell you about the next big step I have took down the road of life:
Last week I sent my nephew in New Mexico an email asking he call me when he had a few minutes. I waited and waited and Sunday his number came up on the phone. It was his wife calling saying she'd just read the email and they had been away for days. I like his wife but she was not the one I needed to talk to, had not rehearsed it in my head a hundred times with him in mind.
So last night as I was pulling in to my destination, it rang and there he was.
After the pleasantries I took off:
"You remember the time I came to visit you at UVa in 1989 and you asked me if I were gay and I lied and I'm sorry, I am."
And he said: "I DID!?? OMG I'm ususally not that forward, was I drunk?" and we both erupted in laughter at this well rehearsed outing gone awry.
He was cool with it, said it must be hard to be gay in the south and I responded I didn;t think it was anymore so here than anywhere else. I added that in proper perspective it is not that big a part of me, but it was a real and vital part and I hated lying about it. I told him I felt like I was dumping on him and apologized, but he was okay with it. We drifted on to other topics and once he had his bearings he came back around with questions.
We discussed the family, and it was wonderful to have his perspective to see who he thought would be receptive and who would not. He has a younger brother who is a Bill O'Reilly Republican so he's off the list. His father and my mother are defiantly off, they could not handle it at all. My sister, he expressed a Real hope that she would be able to, and I saw that it created a conflict for him. We both know she is capable of opening her heart. I think it is a point of potential disappointment if she does not for both of us.
He said she has asked him about me, she probably knows.
Gawd, what is it with this world? Who are these people to put us thru this? Its obnoxious. But I feel good today. One person in my family now knows the truth about me and I never thought that would happen voluntarily.
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