Epilogue (Butch LaDonna)

It was a small barbecue. Just some hot dogs, nothing fancy. Nothing that could be found on the menu of the fast food place that Elizabeth worked at, or the barbecue place that LaDonna worked out. Something fast and easy.

Elizabeth's sexuality had had pervasive effects on her children. Katie was there, on display, under a strict African-American professor at the University, Latoya. Aaron was happy, but even more flamboyantly gay than he'd been growing up. Emily was into men, but that was no virtue -- Elizabeth knew, unhappily, that Emily and Lamont were fucking.

She wondered, not for the first time, what Douglas was up to. She'd be surprised to learn that Faith was very big and into homeless cock. More surprised, likely, that Douglas had accepted the eunuch's fate to serve a former stripper. It was a queer path, in every sense of the word.