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There was a moment for me in college when I was first coming out of the closet that I thought to myself, Oh God, please don’t let me be gay. I’m Sorry Did I Roll My Eyes Out Loud Shirt! I will never have a family if I’m gay. I will never have children. It was a passionate plea because I didn’t know there were any real alternatives to being a nuclear biological family with a mom, dad and two kids (one boy, one girl).

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In West Africa, I learned that the idea of family was broader than what we have in the US. Mauritanians take care of the whole village. I’m Sorry Did I Roll My Eyes Out Loud Shirt! Everyone is family. Every older woman is your Gorgol. Every older man is your Kauw (pronounced Cow—Uncle). If you’re a woman who has trouble having babies, your sister or a neighbor would give you one of hers. Two years in a village with those little kids taught me the deep love I could feel for a little human who wasn’t “mine.” Or rather, it taught me they were ALL mine.

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Those lessons had an effect six years ago when Griffin and I started talking about having kids and I’m Sorry Did I Roll My Eyes Out Loud Shirt. We knew we wanted to adopt but weren’t sure how. Like a beacon in the night, a fost/adopt non-profit in LA was hosting an event at Fred Segal. If you know Griffin you know an adoption event at Fred Segal equals We’re going! We learned that LA County has over 40,000 kids in the foster care system and The Straights couldn’t house all those kids. So there was a targeted effort to get “The Gays” interested in fost/adopt.