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Gay Divorce

While more states are banning gay marriages, more gay couples are living together long-term. More are also splitting up. NPR's Tovia Smith reports on the travails of gay couples in long-term relationships who split up -- with no legal referee to guide decisions of property rights and child custody.

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Tovia Smith is an award-winning NPR National Correspondent based in Boston, who's spent more than three decades covering news around New England and beyond.
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