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Letters from a late-in-life lesbian.

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I came out as a lesbian at age 46 after 22 years of mixed-gender marriage to finally, truly, and unapologetically be me. These are my letters to me, to you, to the universe. (And every so often, to the crabby cashier at Publix.)