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New registry limited, but it’s a good start

KATHY CUNNINGHAM; Graham
The state’s new domestic partnership registry (TNT, 7-24) provides fewer than two dozen of the 1,400 legal rights and responsibilities of marriage.

This may not sound like a lot, but it means a great deal to our families which previously did not have such basic protections as the right to visit a partner in the hospital or the automatic right of inheritance.

My partner and I live in Graham. We have a 22-year-old son who lived with us until recently. We are very normal, tax-paying, hard-working homeowners who deserve the right to every tax break, insurance benefit and legal recognition that heterosexual married couples receive.

We have been together for over 14 years and will be together until one of us is no longer living.