I have a friend in whose best interests it was to stay with her mother--her father has serious physical and psychological health problems--who very nearly couldn't have. You see, her mother's sort of bi but mostly lesbian. There are other prejudices in the legal system.

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"