One Month Later: AugustIt was platonic in August when Paula moved into Angela’s spare room. It would be a pain because Paula had to drive over an hour each way to her job in southwestern Fairfield County; she was giving up her apartment there on August 31. Stamford was at the outer reaches of the neighborhood in which she and Angela grew up—Darien—and she felt oppressed when she was there.
Angela by then cared deeply for Paula. As a sister. Paula had been through some f****d-up stuff and Angela wanted to do what she could to prevent it from happening again. She hoped that simply integrating her into her own lesbian environment would ease her friend’s isolation and expose her to the good, the bad, and the ugly—but mostly the good—of that environment, perhaps allowing Paula to find “the one
