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Waterfalls, The Moon and Sensible Shoes-One Lesbian Life reflects on the different loves, grief, friendship, romance, and feminism that make up one Lesbian life. Strachan's application of her powers of self-reflection to the trove of letters, diaries, and journal entries passed down from her parents or written herself over the past six decades tie disparate threads of family life and American post-war life together. Simultaneously, she tracks a personal account of the radically, quickly shifting social and historical situation for Lesbian and gay individuals from the 1970s to the AIDS crisis and beyond. The individual struggle for, against, and within the currents of history finds a careful, passionate, and genuine treatment in Strachan's hands. An engrossing tale of childhood, adulthood, strength, and family love stateside and far away - Ms. Strachan shares her story of becoming through the letters and diaries of her life. Douglas Yeuell, Executive Director, Atlas Performing Arts Center, Washington, D.C. Praise for Waterfalls, The Moon and Sensible Shoes-One Lesbian Life Engaging and thoughtful! There is a conscious incompleteness to the story; a reflection, perhaps, of the intuitive and sometimes selective ways we write to each other and even to ourselves as Strachan explores moments of her life through personal letters, reflections, and journal entries. And, more to the point, the incompleteness of each of our stories-the ways in which they expand or contract to fit our co