A Piece of Paper (S2: E4)

Anxious Machine by Robert McGinley Myers

Jul 6, 201518:24Society & Culture

When I heard the news of the recent Supreme Court ruling on marriage between same sex couples, I wanted to go back to an interview I did in 2009 with two women who decided to get married before it was legal in their stat...

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