After I got notified, I was pulled anyway and didn't have to serve, but couldn't retrieve the originial post. Didn't have time to post it to your OP.
From memory, it went something like this (I usually edit 4 o 5 times till it makes sense, this one doesn't):
Oh no, Ed Sullivan, acrobats, the part I hated most...
Cyprian and Delphine are in a hotel room to do their thing, she hopes, and instead he does a handstand stunt with the windows open, curtains blowing, where the whole street sees him doing handstands naked from the window. Delphine tells the purple landlady it's war damage. They drew a big crowd that night...
Delphine's mom died when she was young leaving her dad so full of self-pity he does not recognize her needs or appreciate the things she does to try to make him happy. She joins a town theatre group and meets Cyprian. He was in the service, he's an Ojibwe indian, and I forget something in the chapter that talked about citizenship. This was WWII before some laws were changed, I think.
There's a bar scene in another town where Delphine sits with another woman with ugly lips and lipstick. Cyprian isn't there. Later she sees 2 men on a bench, unclothed, in peculair positions, and one of them is Cyprian. She goes to the bench and chats with them. How sad I felt for her. She thought that since they had sex ONCE that everything would be cool, but that didn't happen. He apparently liked her and her strong stomach (to hold chairs) and he needed her for protection. He treated her very kindly, bought her things, worried about her, etc.,. but he wasn't a lover.
A benefit for a group if gays were allowed to marry would be that group of straights who were not truly spouses, just have a marriage license.
If they marry, it won't last. He'll find someone else soon because it seems he's always looking...
Was relieved to see Fidelis name coming up in Chapter 3...Onward!!
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