Betty Jacobs recalls the incident vividly.
She was in a department store with her partner, who is a woman. An employee started admiring their newly born twins and asked who the mother was.
鈥淚 looked at her and I said, 'We both are,' and exactly what I thought would happen happened," Jacobs said. "She gave me a dirty look. She said, 'Oh, that's nasty,' and walked away from me. Now, if that happened to any other race, religion, sex, you would probably say something you wouldn't put up with it. You wouldn't allow somebody to speak to you in that manner. But we had to walk away.鈥�
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