Chapter 8: Red Hair and an Off-rampCharity grew up with her brother Kevin in Jenks, Oklahoma. They lived in Tulsa for a few years when she was younger, but Jenks is the place she called home. The fact that she was a lesbian was something she understood since she was only seven or eight-years-old. She never found boys to be attractive and always thought that girls were. Her mother told her, repeatedly, that she'd like boys once she got older, but that time never came.
Charity came out to her parents and her brother at a family meeting she called shortly after her sixteenth birthday. The look on her father's face was that of complete shock while her mother already knew and had known since she was a child. She hoped that Charity would grow out of it or meet a nice boy, but she never did. On
