Tina: I’ve been researching pool covers and fences. The fences are really ugly. Bette hates them a lot.

Bette: Really a lot.

By this time Roberta’s attention has been distracted to the art project that Bette has displayed on one of the walls.

Bette: The show debuts next month at the Slate Museum. It’s called the ‘Art of Dissent’.

Roberta: I see and does a person actually get paid for something like that?

Bette: Oh well it’s not a full time job. I’m just doing it as a passion project while I’m looking for a more permanent position.

Roberta: So you’re unemployed?

Bette: Well just for the last few months. I’ve been offered several positions but just none that I passionately want to do.

Roberta: OK let me just review: No baby proofing, passionately unemployed, harbors sexually explicit antipatriotic propaganda masquerading as art. What about men?

Bette: Men?

Tina: You do know that we’re lesbians right?

Roberta: Yes that matter was fairly explicitly touted on your petition to the state which is all the more reason why I find the man question critical. How is Angelica going to know what a man is?

Bette: All she has to do is turn on the television they are everywhere.

Tina: Our child is going to be around a lot of men.

Roberta: I know but I mean a significant man. Is she going to know one special man’s voice? I mean how is she going to know what a man feels like? What he smells like? Will she ever rub her cheek against a scratchy unshaven face? Play with the curly hairs on his chest or his back?

Roberta seems to have let her mind drift as she’s talking about men while Bette and Tina just stare at her. Then the moment is interrupted by a loud crash of crushing metal and breaking glass coming from the driveway. Bette gets up and looks out the window. She sees Alice has just smashed her car into Roberta’s. Alice is cursing up a storm as she looks at the wreckage that she’s caused. Alice showing up strung out on drugs just put the final nail in the coffin. If Roberta’s report was to be conclusive Bette had doubts she’d be granted the petition to adopt Angelica.