What Everybody Doesn’t Know About Mary Cheney

October 19, 2004 D. H. McKee

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Mary Cheney: Somewhere out there she exists, the actual Mary Cheney, child of the nondisclosed location, the one who’s the luh-luh-lesbian. She’s become this eternal and complicated mystery for people who are gay, and without ever really knowing her or hearing from her, they’ve spent four years writing poems, articles and protest songs about her. They’ve implored her with open letters in forums she may or may not ever read. They’ve waved signs with her name, started Web sites and put her on a milk carton as though she were a missing child. Oh, Mary Cheney, speak to us.
Then, after last week’s final presidential debate, the subject of Mary went surprisingly national, and she became her very own polling question: Is it okay to drag Mary into this, as the Kerry-Edwards ticket has done?
What Everybody Doesn’t Know About Mary Cheney (washingtonpost.com)

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