The Neallys

Suzanne Nelson was raised just outside of San Francisco. A Stanford grad and varsity runner, she heads to New York City for law school. She is gay, but has come out to no one. In New York she meets Kerry Neally, a New Yorker and fellow student. Who is straight. First in a study group and then as a pair, they find themselves become attached to one another. And have to work out that Kerry thinks she's straight. Eileen is Kerry's mother. She is a widow, and meeting Suzanne helps her leave the shell into which she placed herself after her husband died. And she comes to the attention of two men. One a widower. The other divorced. And love intevenes for her choice. With Suzanne settled into her New York life, she turns her back on her parents, who turned their backs on Suzanne's aunt Mary, a gay woman disowned by her parents and brother decades before. She, too, lives in New York and she and Eileen attempt to get Suzanne's parents to understand their daughter. Kate Nelson comes to New York to reason with her daughter. As eventually does William, her father. The story is about how the members of what becomes a large New York family deal with themselves, each other, and love.

Terry Brewer · LGBT+

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102 Chs

Chapter 38

Moving On

But in one respect it was true that things could not be sustained. Too many comings, too many goings. On a Saturday in early March, Tom and Eileen drove down to Tuckahoe. There was not too much, so they with Kerry and Suzanne loaded up the Outback with Eileen’s stuff. A fair chunk of her wardrobe had already been brought to Chappaqua so she was able to fit the rest—all save a minimal cross-section of things she kept in Tuckahoe. The Subaru was being transferred too, Suzanne’s old Camry being more than enough for the girls, and after hugs and more, Tom in his Audi and Eileen in her Subaru headed north and before they had gotten to the parkway a mile away Kerry and Suzanne had begun the process of moving their things into the master and when Tom and Eileen were still a few exits from Chappaqua Kerry and Suzanne were half-lying on the bed in the master, legs draped over the side, and staring at the ceiling and thinking that they finally had a home.

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