Father, Gay Son and Son's Partner

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Dominick Zarrillo, A Father, a Son and a Fighting Chance. New York Times, June 17, 2012.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/1 ... ighting-chance.html

(a) Excerpt in the window of print: I couldn't explain except to say there is nothing more overwhelming than seeing your child experience true love.

(b) Three consecutive paragraphs:

"After [son] Jeff finished college, we would travel cross-country from New Jersey to visit him in California. A few times we would run into his best friend, Paul, whom we liked a lot.

"Jeff would fly to visit us, too, and when I would take him back to the airport, I would sit with him until his flight boarded, just the two of us. Every time, I could tell there was something he wasn’t saying, something knotted in his belly.

"Finally, he sat us down and said he had something to tell us. We told him that we already knew, and that we really liked Paul, and that we were happy for him. We laughed about how scared he had been to tell us, and after that it was Jeff and Paul, Paul and Jeff. We visited them; they visited us. We took vacations together.

(c) My comment:
(i) This is an garden-variety love story from the perspective of a father. Ordinary if the couple were heterosexual: like holding hands or a devoted wife's casting a look at her husband.
(ii) wop (n; Italian dialect guappo swaggerer, tough, from Latin vappa wine gone flat; First Known Use 1908):
"usually offensive: ITALIAN"
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wop
(iii) Peter Henderson and Dan Levine, California Gay Marriage Case Looks Headed to Supreme Court. Reuters, June 5, 2012
www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/ ... USBRE8540XX20120605
, which legally means the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (based at San Francisco) denied rehearing en banc (Latin for full or entire  bench).
(iv) Perry v Brown
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry_v._Brown
(section 2.1 Plaintiffs: "In May 2009, the Alameda County Clerk-Registrar, Patrick O'Connell, denied Kristin Perry and Sandra Steir a marriage license because they are a same-sex couple. For the same reason, Dean Logan, the Los Angeles County Clerk, denied Paul Katami and Jeffrey Zarrillo a marriage license")