I was kind of afraid to ask, when I saw her yesterday. For the last few months, for the first time in our lives, we hadn't been comfortable talking politics. I spent hours wondering how best to bring it into the conversation.
A little background. My mom was one of those 60's-70's feminists of about the same age as Gloria Steinem. Always a liberal, she hung out in Greenwich Village a little in her 20's before settling in the Jersey suburbs and a house that was a little too much like some of the ones you would have seen in Ang Lee's "The Ice Storm." (Without the wife swapping.)
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