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Why I Hate Babies | The Walrus

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Honestly, I don't really hate them. But they are stealing all of my friends and, with them, my hopes for the future

iStock / IPGGutenbergUKLtd T here isn’t a queer in the world who doesn’t pine for the perfect family. It stands to reason since the vast majority of us have complicated—to say the least—relationships with our parents. Even those of us lucky enough to be born into accepting families still long for that place where we are safe at last, where there are no shameful secrets, where we are held and nourished and protected as perfectly as a baby bird still in its shell. This is why the concept of chosen family is woven so deeply into the fabric of queer-community culture: where the bonds of blood have

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