Chapter Eight
“Louise and Melanie are both married to my sisters,” she told me, “Louise is with Sigrid and Melanie is with Elke but my sisters in law don’t identify as being gay.”
“How can that be?” I asked, “surely,” I trailed away.
“For Louise and Melanie it was never about coming out or hanging labels on themselves,” she flipped the page of one of her books, “it was about whether or not they loved my sisters. In the end it’s about love not labels.”
“Interesting concept,” I looked down at the page. The book is one of several filled with her designs, she’d brought a few into prison a few years ago.
“It’s a bit like dressmaking, when the dress doesn’t fit, you unpick the stitches and add some more material. Expand your horizons and accept that not everything is going to fit you, but y
