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I married the man I love when the state of California said I could. We made a family through adoption, as New York State said we could. From the outside, our family - two dads, two sons via adoption - seems like an experiment, but what family isn't an experiment?

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I mourn for the kind of dad I didn't have; I rue my first broken family while taking joy in the one that I've made.

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Family is whatever you say it is.

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Among this country's enduring myths is that success is virtuous, while the wealth by which we measure success is incidental. We tell ourselves that money cannot buy happiness, but what is incontrovertible is that money buys stuff, and if stuff makes you happy, well, complete the syllogism.

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I don't have a Winslow Homer or a Renoir, but I do have the liberty to live as I like.

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I am a binge reader, with a tendency to throw myself at a writer, immerse myself in their work.

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I love fiction's ability to allow me to inhabit a wholly different life.

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Fashion is about fantasy.

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I've spent many hours of my life browsing in stores. At 21, I admired clothes I couldn't afford. At 30, I bought them. At 40, I sometimes go simply for the pleasure, of seeing what is new, of learning what counts as beautiful now.

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To be five years old is to be surprised by life. I'm amused by my children's awe at quotidian things - a toy helicopter, a bubble bath, the visible tentacles on a plate of calamari. And I'm envious of their ability to attain something I often can't: a state of transcendence induced by art.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

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