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Lesbian Stories
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Lesbian Female / 69
Long Ago Now, We Accommodated Our Circumstances, And Held It Together
My first year out of college charted my future. I was quiet, not into sports, attached to my mother and sisters. Deciding to live with a roommate was a shock to everyone. In my first job after graduation, as a professional, the human resources lady told me about a new girl lookin for a roommate. We met, she had a unit in the 'hot' part of town, but unaffordable without a roommate.
We established house rules, no boys after midnight. Well, no boys ever. The second weekend she asked me if I wanted to meet some of her friends. We went to a club, with background music, sat with three other girls. It was very much a hen party, talks of clothes and makeup.
A woman walked over and asked my roommate if she wanted to dance. She looked at her 'I'm here with my date, no I don't want to dance'. The other girls were 'Oh so your dating, that's interesting, where did you meet?'.
After a while we left for an Italian restaurant, crossing the street she took my hand. In the large circular booth she sat beside me. All through the evening she was asking me if I was having fun. At dinner she paid attention to me and not her friends. At the apartment she asked for a kiss.
That same year I went to a customer appreciation dinner with my supervisor. After the dinner my supervisor followed me home. Pushing his way in, demanded to know why I didn't pay attention to him. When I answered that I had no interest in men and I had a girlfriend, he said nonsense and I woke up the next day on the road to being pregnant.
In those days a pregnant girl walked down the isle. He got his way, I got the dirty end of the stick. As a married girl I had the duty to family, and went ahead to have four children. My girlfriend relationship survived on a wing and a prayer. Lots and lots of girls accepted a partner's marriage. It was the time to accommodate, and we accommodated, and held things together.
We established house rules, no boys after midnight. Well, no boys ever. The second weekend she asked me if I wanted to meet some of her friends. We went to a club, with background music, sat with three other girls. It was very much a hen party, talks of clothes and makeup.
A woman walked over and asked my roommate if she wanted to dance. She looked at her 'I'm here with my date, no I don't want to dance'. The other girls were 'Oh so your dating, that's interesting, where did you meet?'.
After a while we left for an Italian restaurant, crossing the street she took my hand. In the large circular booth she sat beside me. All through the evening she was asking me if I was having fun. At dinner she paid attention to me and not her friends. At the apartment she asked for a kiss.
That same year I went to a customer appreciation dinner with my supervisor. After the dinner my supervisor followed me home. Pushing his way in, demanded to know why I didn't pay attention to him. When I answered that I had no interest in men and I had a girlfriend, he said nonsense and I woke up the next day on the road to being pregnant.
In those days a pregnant girl walked down the isle. He got his way, I got the dirty end of the stick. As a married girl I had the duty to family, and went ahead to have four children. My girlfriend relationship survived on a wing and a prayer. Lots and lots of girls accepted a partner's marriage. It was the time to accommodate, and we accommodated, and held things together.
