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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.