Death, Sex & Money - I Married the Gay Father of My Child
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2014
⏱️ 26 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I really didn't want to be doing it alone. |
| 0:04.1 | I was open to what other, who else might be around to support it, but I felt like really parenting where it's just you and the kid. |
| 0:12.5 | That's very tough. |
| 0:15.3 | This is Death, Sex, and Money. |
| 0:19.5 | Now, he's got dead cops, dead robbers, dead civilians. |
| 0:22.7 | The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot. |
| 0:25.9 | Are you thinking about sex? |
| 0:27.2 | And need to talk about more. |
| 0:28.8 | Whenever you're quiet, you usually think about sex. |
| 0:31.1 | I'm Anna's Sale. |
| 0:36.8 | In one way, Lucy Sexton's story is not so unusual. |
| 0:41.1 | Life whizzes past. |
| 0:42.9 | A woman is 30, then in her mid-30s, and then in her late 30s. |
| 0:47.3 | And then if kids are going to happen, it's really time. |
| 0:52.3 | There are limits, though, to what you can control. |
| 0:55.0 | I was married when I was, you know, I don't know, 27. |
| 0:59.2 | And then in my mid-30s, I was like, okay, so let's have a kid. |
| 1:02.7 | And then he didn't really want to. |
| 1:04.5 | And then in my late 30s, that marriage broke up. |
| 1:07.1 | And I was really like, you know, I really wanted a family. I really wanted a kid, and now I'm in my late 30s and without a partner and a way to have a child. |
| 1:20.9 | But what Lucy did have was a willingness to break the rules. She's a performance artist and a dancer. |
| 1:28.3 | What do you want? In the 1980s, she was a fixture on the downtown New York scene. |
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