coming out to your parents on the telephone is the weirdest thing but when you want to say "mum, there's this girl -" because mum has always been a shoulder to cry on (me who never needed shoulders, not i!) you have to say what's going on (at STD rates -) "mum, there's this girl -" mum has always been a shoulder to cry on. August 12, 1996 © Lela Kaunitz