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    LOVE, CONTRACTUALLY

    How to protect an unconventional family in the age of Trump
    by NICOLE PASULKA Apr 24, 2018 3 minutes

    FOR SEVERAL YEARS, friends Megan Hessenthaler and Sully Ross lived on a boat in Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal, played in a punk rock marching band, and joked about having a baby together. They’re queer, so they would crack up thinking about Ross providing the sperm for artificial insemination and taking on the name “Uncle Daddy.”

    Then the joke got real. They lost their boat. Hessenthaler got married, and she and her wife, Heather Sommerville, did, in fact, want Ross to help them have a baby. “We had to talk about it like a

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