"What?"

"I said how would you like to live in a homosexual society? That's a fair enough question."

"That's a ridiculous question! There never could be such a thing! A homosexual society! How absurd, Angie! Couldn't be...ever."

"Why not?"

"Oh, you know very well 'why not,' Angie! It would be ...immoral, for one thing."

"Am I immoral, Dotty?"

"Well, no...but others would be. Besides, if we didn't have marriages, how could we have children? That's nature, Angie; to get married and have children."

"That's your nature, Dot...but not mine. If we lived in a homosexual society, the majority of women wouldn't want to 'get married and have children'; at least, not the way it is done now. It would be illegal to have intercourse with a man.

"Isn't that ridiculous!

Isn't that absurd!

Angio...

please; I've had enough of this silly talk. Go back to your own room and read, or something; or call up your little playmato and tell her your weird ideas. I've had enough of them."

II

It kept coming back again and again; the weird idea, as she had termed it. She lay without sleeping, staring at the dim outline of the white lace curtain; but she kept thinking about it...The Homosexual Society. Maybe Angie was right. Maybe her Lesbianism wasn't just a 'phase.' Maybe it was comething solid, real, that never would end. And there were others like Angie, she knew this. What would happen if more and more kept coming; what would happen if someday there would be a homosexual society? She tried to picture it in her mind. There would be no wedding to Bob; she would be forbidden to marry him.

She

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