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Well, weve found theWere Heres Emmy submission tape for the year.
(I cried three separate times watching this episode.)
This weeks episode reminds the world that for gay people, the agenda is to simply exist.
Thats quickly apparent when we meet Jaime, a public-school teacher and mother of three.
She lives in Kissimmee and has been married to her husband for 18 years.
One of their children, a 9-year-old daughter named Dempsey, also happens to be trans.
She is a saint.
How do you say no to your child when they tell you exactly who they are?
Jaime asks, and I sob.
Next is Mark, a 58-year-old resident of the Villages who gets paired with Bob.
Hes into older guys and was 28 when he met Vernon, then 67.
Mark would bring his good friend Vernon to family holidays; his whole life has been pretty hush-hush.
Lastly, weve got Mandy and Lori, who met in 1968 and instantly fell in love.
Theyve been married for about 50 years, but Mandy only came out as trans about five years ago.
She seems lighter, more joyous, and more confident, and its a good look on her.
When Shangela finds this out, shes clearly shook, and thats understandable.
(Six others were wounded in the event, which Vico calls a literal nightmare.)
Theres no big cumulative drag show in this weeks episode thatll come next week in part two.
We see Mandy and Jaime speak while Dempsey punctuates her moms words with a bubble gun.
The Villages are a genuinely bizarre megadevelopment.
