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  <title><![CDATA[Are There Closets in Heaven?: A Catholic Father and Lesbian Daughter Share their Story]]></title>
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  <default_description>It's always difficult for a child to tell her parents she is gay, regardless of how liberal or conservative her family might be. When the daughter is part of a devout Catholic family living in a small rural community, the parent-child relationship is exposed to even greater risk, often beyond repair.
&lt;u&gt;Are There Closets in Heaven?&lt;/u&gt; is a revealing first-person dialogue between a lesbian daughter, who had always dutifully tried to please her parents, and her Catholic father, an eighty-one-year-old farmer from Iowa.  Through their letters and reflections, we see how courage and love made it possible for Bob and Carol Curoe to navigate the twists and turns of such a dramatic shift in their lives. This highly personal and often emotional exchange offers a gift of hope and inspiration to families who struggle with learning their child is not what they expected. 
&lt;u&gt;Are There Closets in Heaven?&lt;/u&gt; Lets us experience the real lives behind debates taking place in today s media on same-sex marriage, constitutional amendments, gays and lesbians raising children, and religion.</default_description>
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 06 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had expected this memoir to be based more on letters than it actually was; the review that got me interested in the memoir made it sound as though we'd see Carol and her father reconcile their Catholicism and Carol's lesbianism through years of working it out on paper. Carol's &quot;coming out&quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31874140">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Dec 31 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Are There Closets in Heaven is a nice, easy read peppered with very poignant, inspiring moments. I don't feel like I got the full effect of the book because I don't consider myself part of the target audience, but it'd be exceptionally valuable to any individuals going through a similar struggle to ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41388064">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Mar 14 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a really good book.  I read it in two days, only stopping to sleep.  The only problem I had with it, is that some of the chapters were very similar to other chapters, one told by the father and one told by the daughter.  Usually though, the chapters were different accounts and really differ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17773840">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A father and daughter relate honestly about their journey to wholeness.  Susan's writing about the legal hurdles she and her partner had to face as adoptive parents, ownership of property, and health benefits was very helpful in understanding the proposed legislation in many states.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a great book about accepting homosexuality from a Catholic perspective. I worked with the author Carol Curoe for a time. She's an awesome person.]]></body>
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