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In 2002, new legislation in Quebec made it possible for two parents of the same gender to appear on a child’s birth certificate. Montreal-based storyteller Deb Vanslet remembers it clearly, because her name wasn’t on her daughter’s birth certificate until then. She looks back on that turning point in her parenting journey for Stories from the Stage, out of GBH in Boston.