Veronica & Julie
Salem, Massachusetts
Veronica Arnao, 37, Dental Assistant
Julie “The Scoring Machine” Flachs, 32, Teacher, Field Hockey Coach
“This is our first time coming out in public!” Julie says. “My current employer doesn’t even know!” They met online over a year ago, when Julie lived in Massachusetts and Veronica lived in New York. For their first date, they arranged to meet in Provincetown during Women’s Week in October, 2006. There was instant chemistry, and Veronica soon found herself flying back and forth to Massachusetts twice a month. “The fact that my family had no clue I was dating a woman made it all the harder,” she says. “Facing [them] and telling them was not an easy thing. My dad wants nothing to do with me. My son accepts me for who I am.” The couple is now engaged and living together with Veronica’s son in Massachusetts, where they look forward to being recognized as a legally married couple. “Julie is an exceptional woman,” raves Veronica, “a teacher and an athlete in the sport of Field Hockey. She holds several national titles. You can Google her.”
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