That Strange Intimacy

About the Book

She came, I saw, I was conquered. In college, I didn't know two women making love was a mortal sin, but Lynn was Catholic and soon informed me. Ultimately, being lured by the beautiful liturgies of her church, I was baptized and entered a religious order dedicated to serving disturbed adolescent girls. After twelve years of joyous and deeply satisfying experiences, a misunderstanding with a superior and grave doubts about my vocation made the next five years most painful. At age forty-one, dispensed from my vows and determined to be heterosexual, I discover a world terrifyingly different from the one I had left seventeen years before.

After workingt at a job I hated, during which time I am married briefly, am rejected by my family and am nearly murdered by a man I try to help, in desperation, I drop out and become a hippie, finding time to read and seek out possibilities for rebuilding my life. I finally meet some lesbian feminists who help set me securely on my way.

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About the Author

Hannah Blue Heron was born in Denver, Colorado, attended the Colorado State College of Education in Greeley, where she received a BA degree. She entered the Religious of the Good Shepherd in 1950 and later earned an MA from the University of Notre Dame. After leaving the convent, she has been published two anthologies, Lesbian Nuns Breaking Silence and Intricate passions as well as in various lesbian and feminist magazines.

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