Rita was still trying to get a handle on how Commonwealth attitudes to sex and gender differed from those of the United States. The revolution just two decades past had junked a huge volume of traditional law and custom, but public attitudes were still playing catch-up. Erasmus had delicately hinted that having a high-profile interracial lesbian couple in the spotlight would be socially and politically useful, but Rita stubbornly resisted being pushed towards a career as an opinion shaper and influencer. She’d had enough of that for one lifetime, even though she could see why Miriam and
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