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okasha

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5. This seems to happen a lot with minority or foreign groups when they're looked at closely.

Reply to carolinayellowdog (Original post)

Sat Jan 24, 2015, 05:24 PM

Jan 2015

They turn out to be "just like everybody else" in every way that matters.

I remember an article--long enough ago that I think it was in Life, maybe about the time of the Anita Bryant pogroms--about a gay couple who had adopted ten or twelve special needs kids. When the writer asked what the men would like the reader's takeaway to be, one said, "We're just like any other parents. We have washing machines, too."

(Quote from memory. Not swearing to exact wording.)

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This seems to happen a lot with minority or foreign groups when they're looked at closely. okasha Jan 2015 #5