Yvonne
Yvonne asked Susan Wittig Albert:

Was this really a sexual relationship? Or are we interpreting the past through today's glasses?

Susan Wittig Albert Good questions, Yvonne. What we can say, based on the letters: It was an erotic relationship, the only one of ER's post-marital life. That's assuming that her marital relationship was erotic, as it may not have been (there's a difference between desire and duty) & assuming that her relationship with Earl Miller was not erotic, as it may have been. To your second question: same-sex erotic love is not an invention of the 21st century.

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