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LYN
	Then, Doctor, I went to this Holly Near concert.
	I saw Edie waving me over ... she looked so different.

	She was wearing Indian cotton drawstring pants,
	Birkenstock sandals
	and a "Sisters of Silkwood" T-shirt.  She introduced me to her
	friend Pam.  She's clearly into a new phase.

	And then someone very attractive came over, passing out
	candles.  An artist from the Woman's Building, Janet.

	She was wearing Indian cotton drawstring pants,
	Birkenstock sandals
	and a "Lesbians Ignite" T-shirt.  She'd made the candles
	herself.

	Not the usual phallic-shaped.

	They were formed like a ... a beautiful labia majora.

	The wick, Edie pointed out,
	symbolized a tampon string.

	The evening took a strange turn.
	Maybe it was my breakup with Peter or maybe I just felt like
	widening the parameters of my sexuality.

	I guess I should tell everything, right, Doctor?
	Well, Janet turned out to be a regular "Don Juanita."
	She loves to make love, and when she gets tired she has an old
	vibrator that heats up to such an extent I have to get up, go into
	the kitchen and get an oven mitt.

	She's a multimedia performance artist,
	heavy into the video documents.  Her latest art piece,
	Life Imitates the Avant-Garde,
	earned her a paragraph in Chrysalis.

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