Wow

Wow. Dad­dy called this after­noon to tell me that he just got around to read­ing his email from a week ago and will be respond­ing to it—but he want­ed me to know some­thing “before you go to bed tonight.” He said that he and Mom con­sid­er me and Sam to be mar­ried in every sense, and they don’t care about the legal­i­ties of the sit­u­a­tion. They don’t approve of cohab­i­ta­tion, but they think it would be fool­ish for us to “get up and swear in front of a God (we) don’t respect” to prove a com­mit­ment we’ve already demon­strat­ed in how we live together.

I’m amazed. Com­plete­ly, total­ly, 100% amazed.