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Let me introduce to you three very important people.
On the bottom we have two critical people in my life since I was a young teenager, @BriaandChrissy.
And the top is my girlfriend, Rudy.
If it weren’t for them, I wouldn’t have ever been able to accept myself.

Bria and Chrissy were critical to me as a young kid because my parents were in the middle of a messy messy divorce when I found them.
Not only were they the only lesbian couple I knew, they were the only people I ever related to. Even as a young 14-15 year old girl.

I live in Minnesota.
Pretty gay friendly state, thankfully https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👌🏻" title="Ok hand (light skin tone)" aria-label="Emoji: Ok hand (light skin tone)">
But somehow I was never exposed to many LGBTQ+ individuals.
Bria and Chrissy were my first exposure to who I’d soon become. The family of people like me.
They were my only hope for any real relationship for a while.

I had no idea what a relationship that was valuable meant.
What one meant without all the stuff I saw towards the end of my parents marriage.
They became my role models. The hope I had for what I could have one day.
While no relationship is perfect...

...Their story is what I would soon learn to desire.
They stayed with each other through everything (or from what I saw) and I desired that.
They became my idea of myself and my desires faster than I knew what to do.
I started watching their story at 14...came out at 18.

Within 4 full years, I watched myself grow and change in to a fully grown lesbian woman.
Not before subjecting myself through hell to get there https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤷🏻‍♀️" title="Woman shrugging (light skin tone)" aria-label="Emoji: Woman shrugging (light skin tone)">
But without them, I wouldn’t have grown to be myself.

Why create this thread now?
Well...