I am a mid thirties lesbian. With my partner we have a pool at our house. The girl next door asked if she could bring her four year old to swim. To say she lives here is not enough, to say we have her son under our day watch is also not an exaggeration. I have come so close to just telling her to move in, we don’t want rent, we want her to live with us and her little boy. When he is in my lap I want to hear him call me mommy, when I put him down for a nap I tell him I love him. I don’t like it when he goes home, I don’t like it when she goes home, I can take care of them, give them the love and financial security they need. The boy needs a full time mommy, I can give him that while his mother works, if she doesn’t want to work that’s OK too, just let me love them is all I ask.

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