This comes from a fairly recent newspaper report; I merely have changed a few details out of Delicacy. The report relates to a couple of 'women priests' who planned to be blessed together in church.
"For Moneypenny and Krebs, it will feel 'very special'. Both have two children in their twenties from previous marriages to men and bonded over their shared faith and love of boxing and and mud-wrestling. They said that 'some of our friends found it very hard' when they first got together. 'We had to be courageous', Moneypenny said."
[I have always deeply envied the innumerable journalists who know so accurately how other people will 'feel' in certain contingent future situations.]
Back in the eighties and nineties, we were constantly told that, when we got women priests, we would realise the wonderful but very different gifts ordained women would bring to priestly ministry. With what curiosity did I wonder what those mysteriously esoteric gifts would be!
How glad I am to have lived long enough to find out!
What a romantic shared life: "Well, Darling, have we got time for a quick Courage before the PCC?"
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