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‘We’re happily married, mediocre gay men’: We’re 58, earn $160,000 and saved $2.2 million. We grew up poor. Our families treat us like ATMs. Are we OK?

“Our relatives are very poor, and our acquaintances are either single men getting by paycheck-to-paycheck, very successful professionals or trust-fund babies.”

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