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Lev Raphael's avatar

A woman friend said something like this when I lived in Amherst, and she called them New England Crusties:

"Quite a few middle-American housewives

look and carry themselves like butch lesbians."

She was from Ohio. A born New Englander saw them as the hard-bitten descendants of whalers' wives just down from their widow walks.

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Ferron Foisy's avatar

Thanks for the breakdown lol

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