Can’t Destroy True Love – Prologue

My name is Elizabeth Porter. The majority of people know me as Bette Porter though. The only biological family I have is sister, Katherine or Kit to many and my Dad, Melvin Porter. My sister has had her problems but now she sings and owns her own club/café called The Planet; a popular place in WestHo. My Dad is a lawyer. He refuses to acknowledge my lifestyle. I’m a lesbian by the way. He still believes it is a phase. I’m thirty-five years old and have been out since I was twenty three. My Mom skipped out on my Dad and me when I was four. I’m bi-racial and it was hard for her to live with a black man in segregated America. She found her way back to us when I was nine though but unfortunately she died of cancer three years later.

Lucky for me she was the best Mom a girl could ask for in that time. Her best friend sent her son to live with us but because we didn’t have room Mom found him a place to live just down the road from us in inner city Philly. He was my age and had great foster parents also his Mom visited as often as she could. He lived with his biological father you see but when he died his Mom couldn’t take him in. Apparently her husband didn’t want a bi-racial child. He was my best friend growing up. We were inseparable. We were a couple for while too. I won’t go into details. Just know he will always hold a special place in my heart. After we broke up he got together with my best friend, with my permission. I had already come out by then and we’d moved to LA together from New Haven where we had gone to college at Yale. Anyway they got married and had a baby, Elizabeth, after me. I was so proud. They named me her godmother and Aunt as well. Despite our past relationship we were like brother and sister by now. Elle was 18 months old or so when we got into a fight, a big fight and they moved from LA to New York. I haven’t seen or heard from them ever since.