“Good now let’s go for a walk.” Tina smiled the biggest childlike smile her mother hadn’t seen in a while, she really missed this about her mother. When she was a little girl they would take long walks to the grocery store and along the way Tina would share with her everything from the adventures she had that day to the things she was thinking about. Everything from her dreams to her sexuality. She had come home on vacation from school and made up her mind to tell her parents. It was on one of their long walks that Tina finally broke down and told her mother that she was gay. Her mother was a bit confused at first not really grasping the situation, but she realized that Tina was happy and content with her life so she could only be happy for her in return. It really was the only girl time that they got to share in a house full of big boys growing into larger men.

“Alright now baby tell Momma what happened.”

Tina sighed and began, “Justine was cheating on me. Apparently she’d been cheating for years.”

“The woman she was cheating with…”

“Women.” Tina corrected her as she kicked a small rock along the way.

“What do you mean “women”?”

“She couldn’t be faithful to me mom there’s no way she could be in a monogamous affair. If that makes sense.” Tina said frowning at her own jumbled thinking.

“See I knew it. I knew it I knew it. That girl was always up in my book..”

“What do you mean “you knew it“?”

“Sweetie she never sat well with me and yo Daddy. She never seemed like the right fit for you. Do you know how upset yo Daddy was when he found out that she didn’t ask us for your hand first? Oooo, child he hit the roof.” she said and looked back at Tina as a look of confusion danced across her face.

“So that’s why you guys weren’t coming to the wedding? Because Justine asked me before she got permission from you guys? It never occurred to me that, Daddy was even… I thought you guys weren’t coming to the wedding because we’re gay and we…”