Smiling through my tears and only able to see her as a blur, I officially came out to my Mother. "Well Mom, in case you had any lingering doubts. I like girls too."

"Only girls?" Mom asked, clearly digging deeper without obviously digging deeper.

"Yes, only girls. I've accepted that I'm a lesbian, have been one for over a week now, but I was too scared to tell you," I admitted.

"Why? Not the lesbian part, of course that's okay with me, but the scared part."

"I just thought you were already a single Mother having to raise a problem child on your own, so the last thing you needed...