Casper couple sets aside quiet life to help lead Wyoming to marriage equality

She noticed the rings first.

Annie crawled in between Rob and Carl in the back of her parents pickup. The two families neighbors, but family had just finished a big meal at Red Lobster. It was a perfect evening in Casper in the summer of 2012, the late-setting sun dipping below the prairie horizon.

As Carl buckled 5-year-old Annie into her seat, she couldnt keep her little hands and big green eyes off the diamonds set in his platinum ring.

You guys have the same rings, she said. Are you married?

Rob and Carl had spent the better part of two decades considering the right way to talk about their relationship, but the curiosity of a child was something new, something different.

Yes, Carl told Annie, he and Rob were married.

She paused.

Whos the wife?

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Casper couple sets aside quiet life to help lead Wyoming to marriage equality