My mother's family has been in Maine for over 300 years on the same farm. They have a King George III deed.

In the fall term of 1933-34 I was on my family farm in Maine.

I met my first boyfriend when we were 13, playing 'Dungeons and Dragons' in the basement of my local comics shop. We were from the same small town in Maine but went to different schools.

When you're bi-racial, in the town I was in, in Maine, people kept asking, 'What are you?' It was like I wasn't even human.

When I left the state of Maine for college, I met my first really rich friends, and I discovered summer could be a verb.

In 2009, the 'New York Times' ran an analysis on the cost of being a LGBT couple trying to live as a married couple but without the same protections. Over a lifetime, they estimated a couple would spend as much as $467,562 more, and as little as $41,196, with costs running lower the higher your income.