“Oh my God,” Susan’s wife Deb had remarked, observing them on the couch as they scrolled simultaneously through their cellphones. One day, White brokered their first face-to-face interaction by accidentally starting a video call and hanging up only after Rice’s phone buzzed with a notification. The following day, White booked her trip to Chicago, where they hung out this week for every waking moment, from Tuesday morning through to her flight home on Friday afternoon. They went out for dinner with Deb on Christmas Day, and realized their conversations flowed naturally. Rice is sometimes apprehensive of how people she meets will react when they find out she’s married to a woman.

Source: National Post December 28, 2018 21:45 UTC