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...Angeles law partners Diane Abbitt and Roberta Bennett went to college together, married fraternity brothers, then fell in love with each other when Abbitt's two boys and Bennett's two girls were ages 2 to 5. The kids were often queasy about their mothers' public displays of affection. When the women held hands on a bus, one son whispered, "Don't do that." Allison, now 23, feared as a teenager that no one would marry her; at 14, she wrote the couple a letter about how awful it was to have two lesbian mothers and how deeply she wished...
...extra dirt and fired up smudge pots to raise the temperature in their groves. But the cold snap -- with wind-chill temperatures of -5 degrees F as far south as Orlando -- lasted too long for such stopgap measures. Many strawberry, orange and grapefruit crops were completely ruined. Said Ben Abbitt, general manager of the Haines City Citrus Growers Association, Florida's biggest orange producer: "Mother Nature took us to the woodshed and kept us there three long nights...
...calculated. One stroke of fortune was that in Texas some 40% of the crop had already been harvested, though this year's calamity, which followed freezes in December 1983 and January 1985, might still force many small producers to the wall. Among the remainder, layoffs seemed inevitable: Abbitt, for one, has furloughed 175 of his 450 workers...
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