This morning, I had to go pick up a card with some photos on it that my friend Richard took of the National Equality March last week. He is in the Renaissance Center at 10th and State, and I ended up taking 6th Street home.
At 6th and Chestnut, I saw my friend Erin’s car, and realized that the Young Lesbian Bisexual and Transgender Women (YLBT Women) were going to tour the Watson Curtze Mansion Museum right then. I figured that it was way too much of a coincidence to pass up, so I wandered in (even though I am neither young now a lesbian. 
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It was a small/intimate turnout, but it was great fun. I recalled that I used to go to art classes at the museum when I was a kid. I also used to live down the street at 6th and Myrtle. There was a statue (Greek or Romanm, not sure which) in the entrance hall of a woman with a winged cupid covering her eyes. In my rather macabre frame of mind, all I could think was of her screaming that it was gouging her eyes out – “Get it off! Get it off!!! The pain!!!”
We went through the entire museum. It was interesting what I recalled from 35-40 years ago and what might have been new/not remembered.
After the museum, we had a very nice lunch at Molly Brannigan’s. All in all, a very pleasant afternoon!
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