We Found Our Son in the Subway

Feb 28, 2013 18:17

The story of how Danny and I were married last July in a Manhattan courtroom, with our son, Kevin, beside us, began 12 years earlier, in a dark, damp subway station ( Read more... )

adoption, good news, marriage, new york times, lgbtq / gender & sexual minorities, children, new york

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carminaburana March 1 2013, 03:22:45 UTC
Blinking back tears is right! What a great story. ♥

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bestdaywelived March 1 2013, 03:27:29 UTC
So I never cry reading internet news stories ... but fuck, this one broke my streak. So fucking endearing.

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ceilidh March 1 2013, 03:29:13 UTC
don't mind me it's just raining on my face

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ahzuri March 1 2013, 03:40:45 UTC
Amazing. I am so happy that stories like this exist and that every day I see stories of people who are repressed for various reasons having awesome things happen to them, they restore my faith in humanity little by little.

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crooked_halo March 1 2013, 05:00:15 UTC
Me too! I've had an awful awful week but seeing this just made me cry the good tears and reminded me that humans have so much capacity for good.

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ahzuri March 1 2013, 05:49:22 UTC
Exactly! I've actually seen more than one good story this week (its fucking amazing) and a lot of them seem to be LBGT related which I think is totally awesome.

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crooked_halo March 2 2013, 06:04:03 UTC
I agree that it's awesome! I like to hope that the tides are turning finally!

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kagehikario March 1 2013, 03:46:35 UTC
_P YOU MAY *NOT* MAKE ME CRY ON THE BUS...

G'damnit, this is beautiful

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