[ She shrugs. Julie has actually never met anyone born of IVF, let alone someone with gay parents. She's from rural Kansas -- IVF is expensive and gay folks don't live happily in places like Pratt, unfortunately. So she can't rightly say how they might feel about it. ]

I mean, I don't know. I'm sure it depends on what they learn growin' up. It's like, every family is different. Some people probably tell their kids where they came from, they might know the biological mom. Some kids might not care, if they have two really good dads. I know some people who never met their dads, and usually it's the idea that somethin' is... missin'. That gets 'em. That there's somethin' they don't know and lost out on. But lots of 'em never wanted to find their dads at all. [ She sighs. ] Not sure if that's more about bein' satisfied with their lives or just knowin' that deadbeat dads who ran off don't turn into better people just 'cause time's gone by.

[ She grew up with both parents. They probably would have been better off not married, and they were both pretty neglectful due to both poverty and alcoholism, but they both tried, she thinks. It felt like they loved her, even if they didn't pay much attention except to fight when she ran wild, and they both made efforts with her, at least when she was young. But circumstances were what they were, and Julie eventually sort of wound up raising herself. ]