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jen63

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51. You are quite welcome!

Tue Sep 9, 2014, 05:23 PM

Sep 2014

I think the RWNJs think this is a new phenomenon, but it is as old as time itself. The family knew, but no one had a problem with it. You love who you love! Twenty years after Gladys died, aunt TeTe was still telling "Gladys stories". The same as any heterosexual person who has lost a loved one. I think she would be amazed at the way this country is embracing same sex marriage, though I don't know that with her upbringing if she would've taken advantage of it, if it was offered to her. Maybe I'm under estimating her though. I'd like to think she would have.

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