Source: The Mastery of Love (1999), Ch.4 - p.71
“No matter what Joe Hoffman and Wade Preston say, it's not gender that makes a family; it's love. You don't need a mother and a father; you don't necessarily even need two parents. You just need someone who's got your back.”
Source: Sing You Home
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“Oh! Don't you throw my love away,
I need your loving, I need your loving…”
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