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Happier stuff from random news-surfing
California will begin granting marriage licenses to same-sex couples on June 17. And a Reuters poll shows that a majority of Californians do not want a constitutional amendment barring same-sex marriage. Which means it may be here to stay. Yes!
Completely unrelated, a Tennessee woman who spent her life in an iron lung is dead at age 61. On the one hand, the way she died (power failure shut down the machinery that enabled her to breathe) is incredibly depressing. But she apparently lived a full life despite being paralyzed with only her head exposed from the machine for 60 years -- she lived with her family, got a high school diploma and wrote a children's book. And that's just awesome to me.
Completely unrelated, a Tennessee woman who spent her life in an iron lung is dead at age 61. On the one hand, the way she died (power failure shut down the machinery that enabled her to breathe) is incredibly depressing. But she apparently lived a full life despite being paralyzed with only her head exposed from the machine for 60 years -- she lived with her family, got a high school diploma and wrote a children's book. And that's just awesome to me.
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Is this for real? Can I get my hopes up? @_@ I've been afraid to follow the latest developments.
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Yeah, me too (mostly because the majority of the commentary/opinions I read on it just ticks me off) but this really looks hopeful! And I just saw a news item on the Yahoo news ticker that apparently New York will be recognizing out-of-state same-sex marriage, as well.