Women's World

I married the best of the four daughters, the second one. (The story goes they'd picked out a man's name for her, but had none planned for a daughter.)

My wife has an unusual last name, which we gave to both my sons as my last name is ridiculously common. I thought my father-in-law would be pleased to have "the family name" extended, but he was displeased. (He was displeased, at least for several years that his daughter married me at all, but that's another story.) He was first generation, from an "old world."

I always expected to have a daughter or two, but it didn't happen. I couldn't have cared less either way, but I'm proud of the men my sons became. I think they're both feminist men, more or less.

My brother-in-law wanted sons and had daughters; he got over it, and turned into a relatively happy dad.