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Mary Meriam

Mary Meriam co-founded Headmistress Press and edits the Lavender Review: Lesbian Poetry and Art. She is the author of My Girl’s Green Jacket (2018) and The Lillian Trilogy (2015), both from Headmistress Press. Her other books include The Countess of Flatbroke (Modern Metrics/Exot Books, 2006). 
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Sophia Healy, 1983

By Mary Meriam

Column 279

The Romance of Middle Age