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Date: | Sat, 12 Feb 2000 17:58:36 EST |
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Dan
It's funny the reaction your Mom has to homosexuals. When I was a very young
boy I was a precocious reader. I read every book my college-age brothers
brought into the house. (Yes, including those! I told you I was
precocious!) Anyway, I read this one book called "Other Voices, Other Rooms"
by Truman Capote. I had not yet hit puberty, so the sexual inferences were
totally lost on me. All I recognized as a boy that fell in love with girls
in my class regularly was the unrequited love of the boy in the book and a
girl in the book. I had no idea who Truman Capote was, or that he was a
homosexual, and the references to homosexuality in the book didn't even
register on me. Until my mother threw a fit that I had read such a nasty
book and accused me (remember, not even at puberty yet) of being a
homosexual. Strange stuff. I still say it's a beautifully written book and
I'm as straight as they come.
Paul V. the Woman Loving Man Who just happens to admire a book written by a
homosexual novelist
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