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Corbin’s story | “Most of my youth [my mom] was a lesbian. My father decided that he has always been a woman.”

by Them Before Us | Nov 28, 2018 | Stories | 7 comments

My parents were allegedly a common law marriage, but the state they lived in didn’t recognize common law marriage at the time, so far as I can tell. They were hippies, my father was a drunk and a junkie, my mother left him when I was 2 and my brother 4. My...

Tara’s story | “…The father in my house was not really my dad.”

by Them Before Us | Nov 15, 2018 | Stories | 7 comments

My parents married at 18 years of age because of my impending arrival. My mother and I—along with my brother, who came along 15 months later—lived with my maternal grandparents for the first few years of my life. My dad was in the US Air Force and stationed far away,...

Kathryn’s story | “My mother told my brother that he was now the ‘man of the house’…he became depressed in his 20’s and drowned.”

by Them Before Us | May 22, 2017 | Stories

My brother & I grew up without the presence of our father for most of our childhood. There were brief times we spent as a family of four, but those moments were few & far between. My mother eventually packed our bags when my father was at work one day, and we...

Corbin’s story | “Most of my youth [my mom] was a lesbian. My father decided that he has always been a woman.”

Tara’s story | “…The father in my house was not really my dad.”

Kathryn’s story | “My mother told my brother that he was now the ‘man of the house’…he became depressed in his 20’s and drowned.”

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