what are their relations?

One of my co-workers calls it a fad or a trend. Though I by no means agree that coming out is a temporary notion or manner of conduct, I do recognize that it is becoming quite popular. But do the numbers lead to it being more socially accepted?

I encounter all types of people every day - the fat and the skinny, the mentally challenged and the gifted, the rude and the complacent, the old and the young, the ill and the healthy, the heterosexuals and the homosexuals.

Yesterday I happened to ask "What is the relation between customer A and customer B?" They both pick up each other's medications, yet never seem to come together so I have never seen the two interact. Both are caucasion females, one 64 years of age and the other 44 years of age. The 64 year old always has two Chinese girls with her.

Answer: The two women are partners who adopted babies from China.

Why do I find this worthy of writing about? It is not because they are lesbians; I am open to everyone's sexual orientation. I think what got me thinking is that there are so many uncharacteristic variables in the equation. Two caucasion women, twenty-years apart (one in her early sixties) adopting and raising two Chinese girls. I believe that a home with these two women is better than no home at all, but I am curious to see how the little girls' lifestyles will differ from the rest of us.