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Cover of I Came Out for This?

I Came Out for This?

✍ Scribed by Gitlin, Lisa


Book ID
107822313
Publisher
Bywater Books
Tongue
English
Weight
133 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781612940199

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis


There's only one place Joanna Kane can tell it like it is. Her journal:

_I hate Terri Rubin, the woman I 'm in love with. She called and told me she's dating a woman named Sonya. I hate this Sonya and I hate Terri and I hate myself because I was never like this in my life. Do you know what it's like to come out when you're in your forties, having menopausal symptoms, for God's sake, and then fall madly in love with someone? All of a sudden you're in adolescence_for the first time _. You don 't even recognize yourself. My whole adult life I was this cool, collected writer, strutting around in jeans and leather jacket, advising friends and siblings about their relationships, being a devoted daughter and a responsible professional person and a good citizen, and then one day I woke up and realized I was gay, and then this sassy woman walked into my life and I fell in love at first sight, after spending my life thinking that...


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