HYATTSVILLE, Md. (RNS) For Sean Carlson, the little stories have added up the most.
The moment that his mother, Barbara, said she had made "save the date" cards for Sean's upcoming wedding to another man, Jamie McGonnigal. The funny story of how his mother and Jamie first met over a flat tire. The subtle, then matter-of-fact way that Barbara Carlson, a devout Catholic, let her son know she had moved past years of doubts and disagreements and was voting for the gay-marriage measure in Maryland last November.
Barbara, 60, had put literature on that referendum in a place in her home so that Sean, 28, was sure to see it. It was her invitation for another talk in a progression of often stormy conversations over nearly seven years. Many had ended badly, including one in which Sean stormed out of his mother's house and vowed never to return.
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