Because I don't like to make assumptions except when I make assumptions:

[red_satin_doll]

A very happy and peaceful whatever-the-heck-you-celebrate to everyone on my foist.
(And if you don't celebrate anything, that's cool too.)




You know it, Faith. (If I were anymore generic I'd be reduced to "have a nice day".)

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Re: I did ask...(pt2 - sorry for the ramble)

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Oops, sorry for not clarifying - my sweetie and I moved from NC to New england (connecticut) over a decade ago so she could get her bachelor's degree in fine art - one of those mid-life dreams long denied. And I'm very at home here, as much as i can be - I think I'm rather good at that, being at least somewhat at home everywhere I've lived, and being completely at home nowhere I've lived; I suppose I'm not 100% at home in my own skin. But I'm fairly adaptable.

I think I would be uncomfortable in a state with such conservative politics, though.

When I moved to Greensboro NC to go to grad school I had JUST come out as a lesbian that year - I mean, fully, completely, all-the-way out, not peeping between the slats of the door. And I was a little freaked out because I had the same stereotypes of southerners as...well, as I suspect a lot of northerners have. After I'd been there a while my mom asked "aren't they prejudiced down there?" and I said, "they're prejudiced up north too". Which is true - I come from Detroit, which might possibly be THE MOST racially segregated city in the nation. I saw far more interracial couples in NC than I had in Michigan up to that point.

And I was lucky that ART was in Greensboro and a lesbian support group. I'd had no idea before I went there - not like today, we can do so much research online!

My sweetie and I have talked about moving back, and Greensboro would probably be ok. But there isn't gay marriage there like in CT (and the recent Windsor case may affect our decision), and although she has family in Chattanooga who would like to have her nearer, I'm not really all that thrilled about moving back to a more conservative area. It's probably better than some other states, but everything is relative.

Probably why we've dragged our feet on the issue and stayed here in CT for ten years.

And a very happy new year to you, and much joy to you in 2014 - it's just hours away isn't it? See you on the other side!