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You all should know who said that! Many people think that was about his summer working in Connecticut, specifically, when he went to a restaurant, looked for the "colored" section, and the waitress replied, "Anywhere you want."
Decades later, that spirit of quiet acceptance is still what makes New England special. I was just watching Yankee Magazine on public television and they visited Wiscasset, ME. I wanted to see if they would feature the famous lobster place, Red's Eats (they didn't); instead, what they showed were all the knick-knack stores in the town.
What I'm writing about is the owner of one of those stores... a gay couple.
The show made it a seamless segue from one business to another—from a store selling homemade candles to a store that sold old books and memorabilia. Period.
Many times I have written about lesbian and gay couples being run out of town. Yet, how beautiful it is that in the liberal Northeast, most people don't care if you're trans, if you're gay, or if you're Muslim... they care only if you are a good neighbor.
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