I am running to my father’s side because he has called me.

Claribel Nash neé Wiese had been a school-teacher, too. For a time in a one-room schoolhouse near Cumberland, Indiana

I asked my mom why Butch despised me--was it just because I was gay? No, Mom said, there’s more to it than that

Just before the big flood of 1972 in Rochester, New York, in the wake of Hurricane Agnus, my father moved out of our house for good.