Dawn Langley Simmons

I believe every word that Dawn Langley Simmons says.

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Posted By: Paul - Wed Sep 27, 2017
Category: Children | Parents | 1960s | Gender-bending | LGBT

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"Hey, mom, did you smoke a lot of weed in the hippie days?"

The way this is worded is sounds as if the girl was actually ordered like a take-away dinner. Then again, she probably was.

Posted by KDP on 09/27/17 at 02:05 PM

I'm guessing it was a ploy to try and make the child legally her and her husband's child because it was likely difficult for transgender people in an interracial marriage to adopt kids in the american south in the 60's

Posted by Fluffy Bunny Slippers on 09/27/17 at 03:30 PM

I'm just grateful I didn't get a name like "Bathsheba Marjorie Margaret Paul Simmons." I think I'd have rather had the Doberman's name.

Posted by Virtual on 09/27/17 at 06:48 PM

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