And as for feeding the baby at night, sometimes I'll splurge and pay two hundred bucks for a baby nurse, or what I like to call my surrogate husband, without benefits.

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Although a married couple, particularly one with roughly equal incomes, will sometimes pay more filing jointly then if they were single, as I observed in my post on marriage equality, they will almost always come to a higher total using married filing separately, which is the only other alternative if they are of different genders.

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Sometimes when I go through old mail, I find really important messages I had ignored, like someone offering to pay me to give a speech.

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