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"We did something monumental&amp;amp;#8212;we went for coffee&amp;amp;#8212;just the two of us. We sat at a tiny circle table and had a lovely afternoon together. I wore real jeans with a button and zipper and lip gloss, oh my. I felt like &amp;amp;#8220;Christine!&amp;amp;#8221; I sipped my latte, licking cinnamon-spotted foam from a wooden stick and read the Style section of The New York Times. JD sucked on his bottle and listened to the crunch and smash of the coffee grinder and whir and whisk of the barista. His eyes widened and blinked in amazement. He startled a few times at the vivid shriek of the piping steamed milk. Mommy used to do this in the city, I told him&amp;amp;#8230;One day soon, I&amp;amp;#8217;ll take you there. This Sunday&amp;amp;#8217;s Modern Love was titled &amp;amp;#8220;The Man I Wish Was Your Father.&amp;amp;#8221; I read sentence after sentence, stopping only to find JD staring up at me like I was the greatest thing he&amp;amp;#8217;s ever seen. The writer, Virginia Smith, candidly shares how she wished she could have conceived children with her gay friend, but was scared to, because of the times. The Aids epidemic was spreading like wild fire through New York City and after she learned her friend may have contracted the disease her hopes for a family with him died. She ended up going to a sperm bank and had three children from the same donor. She longs for what could have been with her friend&amp;amp;#8212;what they could have done for him&amp;amp;#8230;and him, them&amp;amp;#8230; I tried to picture SD in our lives and I couldn&amp;amp;#8217;t, and for the first time I really did feel content and secure. There&amp;amp;#8217;s no convincing me anymore. I have my kid and my coffee. I spent a lot of Sundays in NYC drinking lattes, reading and writing. I&amp;amp;#8217;m starting to combine the world I left behind and the world I&amp;amp;#8217;ve come to love."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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