Chapter 17
Ruth considered Halloween an anniversary, of sorts. Not so much an anniversary in relation to Agnes, whom she’d continued seeing on the sly in the month since Nuit Blanche, but a personal anniversary: the anniversary of the day she opened up and gave in to being... well, Agnes used the word “queer” but that term held such blatantly negative connotations, to Ruth.
At the same time, “lesbian” didn’t feel quite right, because what would people think? She’d been married to a man for twenty-five years, for Christ’s sake! But did she consider herself bisexual? No. Men really didn’t interest her enough to say she was bisexual.
And yet she remained married to a man...
Sexuality was a complicated beast, and its relation to romance wasn’t always clear. For instance, there were times
