By Kira Cochrane
To possess Carren Strock, the disclosure arrived whenever she was 44. She had came across the lady partner – “a very good man, most nice” – at the twelfth grade whenever she is actually 16, was actually partnered in order to your to have twenty five years, had two dearly adored youngsters, and you will what she refers to since an 
effective “white-picket-wall life” in Nyc. Then, eventually, resting opposite their closest friend, she realized: “Oh my Goodness. I’m crazy about that it lady.” The idea one to she would-be good lesbian had never happened so you’re able to the woman before. “If you’d expected me personally the prior seasons,” she claims, “I would has replied: ‘I know precisely exactly who and everything i in the morning – I am not saying a lesbian, nor can i previously feel you to.”‘
She considered compelled to give this lady buddy, but their appeal was not reciprocated; in the beginning she was not sure whether she got ideas for ladies as a whole, or just this in particular.