Shortly after moving, in I set out to discover my new surroundings with Tess by my side.
Paul: I had just moved to California with my partner Rick and met Tess and Jane and knew they were going to get married.
Tess: When I had my totally non-legal wedding ceremony in 1992, I never envisioned same-sex marriage equality happening in my lifetime.
There was a lot of the Tess of the d'Urbervilles in my mother's accounts: rich relatives, flashes of genius, blue blood gone astray.
Back in the flat, I find the Tess DVD is still stuck in my laptop.
A few days later, I was with Tess in our garden and much to my surprise there she was again.
She continued, "My favorite use of condoms was in 'Montana Sky,' when Tess goes to seduce Nate at his desk and he's kind of like, 'Well, you know, I'm not prepared,' and she pulls out like twenty of them, and he doesn't know whether to be flattered or afraid".
"My mom's Corgis have done much worse," Whitney said when Tess apologized between retching episodes.
Tess: We split the time between Anna's home and my home.
"TESS, THE ORPHAN EARTHWORM" It was a muggy May evening and my husband Chuck's full bait bucket was sitting on the kitchen counter.
