been a part of major changes and decisions in my life.
In the past five years our lives have become more intertwined than before. I know that feminism and the women’s movement helped us validate the meaningful friendship we already had. On an emotional level, however, what made our increasing closeness
possible was that after twenty years of friendship we were finally able to express to one another the love we felt, and to accept it as a love which did not have the same expectations or boundaries as a conventional love relationship. With some sadness and even shame I look back and realize that I could not freely and openly express my love
to Corky all those years, but when I did, it was a freeing and life-changing event for me.
