as small as a world and as large as alone

3:20pm August 22, 2014

gaywrites:

Meet Ellen Gerber and Pearl Berlin. They met through mutual friends in 1964. They committed to spending their lives together on June 2, 1966. They tied the knot last year in Maine. But they are legal strangers in their state of North Carolina, where they’re the lead plaintiffs in a lawsuit challenging the state ban on marriage equality.

They’re also so cute my heart is crying.

“We’re still in love, after 48 years,” Gerber, better known as Lennie, said recently. “We still can’t begin the day without a good cuddle.”

“They can see that in us, that being gay or lesbian is just the same as being straight,” Gerber said. “You just love somebody of your own sex. Otherwise, there’s no difference. … We want to be recognized for what we are — a married couple.”

This is their story, and it’s a damn beautiful one.

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