Debt is the little black dress in everybody’s wardrobe. You may not want it, it doesn’t really excite you, but you’re encouraged to have one because you never know when you might need it.
The point is not whether Milk would have wanted to marry Smith. The point is that he lived in circumstances where it was possible for an openly gay and unmarried man to leave death benefits to his surviving partner.
Excerpt: But even more fascinating to me is the extent to which we hold on to the idea that we’re all just part of a struggling middle class, despite mounting evidence that a lot of us are just plain poor.
