Roanoke, VA Roanoke, VA
Roanoke, VA Roanoke, VA

George & Peggy, Roanoke, VA - married 1956

Peggy:
When he first told me he was gay, I said, "okay, you’re gay, we’ll deal with it and go on."  You know?  Not knowing some of the dynamics that would come afterwards.


RF:
Are you going to stay together?

George:
(Quietly.)  Yeah.  (Pause.)  And nobody—I can’t say what will happen tomorrow.  I can’t say what will happen next year.  But as of this minute right now, yes.

Peggy:
And I think I feel more secure in that.  Because for a long, long time I did not feel that from him.  It was almost like, "well, he may not be here next week." But I feel like he has made this commitment now, that this is really what he wants to do.  And like I say, either one of us might change our mind, we don’t know what’s gonna happen; but I think right now we have this solid commitment to each other.

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