I am a 17-year-old girl who has accepted the fact that I am a lesbian. However, I am afraid of coming out — not for fear of what my peers will think, but for fear of my family. I come from a very strict Christian household, and both of my parents are pastors of a church. They are constantly demeaning and bad-mouthing the gay community. They claim that God didn’t make anyone that way, but rather it was Satan that did this. I choose to believe otherwise. The biggest problem is that I want to go to a college that is accepting of gays, so that I would at least be able to go to my college and be open. But I am afraid that if I came out, my parents would cut off all funding of my education and would want nothing to do with me. What would be the best solution for my problem?

Princess Leia is sitting on my kitchen cupboard, next to the pomegranate tea and the English muffins. She’s all dressed up in her white hooded gown, blaster rifle in hand, ready to fight the bad guys.

Dear Annie: My good friend “Lara” is three months pregnant with her third child. She recently confided in me that she purposely didn’t use birth control. She told her husband, “Joe,” that the pregnancy was “an accident.”