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“In a small house, in a small town, where kids were playing, doors wide open, and everyone got along, was a child who had a
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“Around our twins’ first birthday, I started to get that itch to have more babies. This time around, I felt a lot less pressure to
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“My best friend, Josh, came out to me as gay when we were teenagers back in the late ‘90s. I was the first friend he
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