| (Names have been altered slightly, just in case.)
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| Josie: | I have a new crusshhhhh
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| Matt: | Me too! On a boy!
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| Pearl: | You're a boy with a crush on a boy?
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| Matt: | Yeah he's really cute.
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| Pearl: | Oh.
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| (pause for a bit)
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| Matt: | Boys can like boys. I just can't marry him because boys can't marry boys.
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| Me: | Yeah they can. You can marry whoever you want.
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| Matt: | Really?
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| Josie: | YEAH my tia has a wife so now I have a titi and a auntie.
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| Matt: | Okay. Then maybe I'll marry him.
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| Dave: | (from across the room) No you can't you're seven.
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| (Age was apparently the only foreseeable problem anyone of my elementary schoolers could see with gay marriage. I almost cried out of happiness. Later, when I was asked if boys could kiss anyone they wanted, I replied "only if they want to kiss you back." And Josie responded "Yeah! Your body your life.")
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| My students are the shit. |