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“People always assume I’m bi.’
‘Why? No one ever assumes I’m bi. Oh, no, Greta.’
‘What?’ She turns to look at me. We haven’t been looking at each other at all during this exchange, just up at the ceiling, like a therapy session. I’m the worst, dodgiest therapist, lying in my bed and not letting my clients turn the lights on.
‘It’s because of sexism, isn’t it.’
‘Yeah, it’s just very hard to convince anyone that wanting to look pretty doesn’t mean you want attention from men. And then people say it to me so much I think I am bi, and I go out with straight guys and feel like I’m suffocating.”
― Rebecca K. Reilly, Greta & Valdin