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BETH KERRIGAN and Jody Mock returned from their twins’ first overnight Boy Scout camping trip last Sunday afternoon with loads of laundry and everyone tired and hungry. They ordered in Chinese food, threw some clothes in the washing machine and read to the boys before bed.
They have always considered themselves to be really no different from any other Connecticut family, balancing work with the children’s activities and adorning the walls of their comfortable suburban home with children’s drawings and photographs.
Only now, they will be allowed to put a name to their living arrangement that is routine to many Connecticut couples: Marriage.
The Oct. 10 State Supreme Court decision that legalized same-sex marriage — making Connecticut the third state in the nation to do so — will change little else about day-to-day life in the Kerrigan-Mock household. They will still go to their jobs in the insurance industry every day. Their lives will still be centered on their 6-year-old twins, Carlos and Fernando, adopted from Guatemala, and they will continue to worry about how they will pay for their college.
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