coming out

Letter to my parents, written just now, being sent later today, on paper, in the mail. Bombs away.:

Dear Mom & Dad,

First, thank you for all your support, obviously in general, but specifically about all this intestinal distress -- I get sick so rarely, and I handle it so poorly. Sorry if I've been a big baby about it.

This letter, however, is not about that, and I apologize in advance for dropping everything on you at once, but the recent stress has made me realize how exhausted and unhappy my decision to keep certain details about my life from you has made me. My doctor is at the Callen-lorde center, which is a health center for the gay community. Kali has come up so often in this discussion of my health because she is my girlfriend -- we've been together over a year, and while I've dated other women before, it was never serious enough for me to feel any of us needed the potential stress of this revelation. To me, this (and her) is both an ordinary and wonderful part of my life -- to you, who knows? Although, in the scheme of my sometimes challenging disposition, this is probably an easy one, and I hope that in time my being honest with you about this will help to strengthen all that good family stuff I've not always been so good at.

I love you.

-Racheline

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