Angio...but, you know, I've been giving it a lot of thought lately...I mean last night...about what you said. Angie,

I don't want my happiness if you can't have yours..."

"What?"

"I mean it, Angie. I want you to be happy, too."

"Why.

thank you, Dotty...but I'm happy..."

"No, you're not! You have to look at heterosexual billboards and read heterosexual books...!"

Angie laughed softly.

IV

"Hello...?"

"Hey, why don't you answer the phone when I call you...?"

"Oh...it's you, darling...I'n answering..."

"Took you long enough! Hey! Something wonderful just happened!"

"You got a raise!"

"No, Paula, you money-mad woman; something better... Dotty talked her guy, Bob, into letting us have his apartment, when he moves out next week. He's going to sublet for us, so that we can move in together; and, you know what, darling...Dotty is going to help us get started housekeeping. She says that she would feel guilty in her new apartment, if wo couldn't have one, too!"

"That's the matter with Dotty? Has she gone nuts?"

"Don't talk that way about my sister."

"Oh...Angie...the last time I heard from Dotty she was grimacing whenever she heard my name mentioned; now she wants me to share an apartment with you.

"Oh...just a littlo somo thing I said...

How come ?"

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