"...yes, we are both men, and we are married and have a daughter. She has a mother but we aren't married to her. Both of them went back to Amenta."

"Who are you married to?"

"My husband. Who I live with. You met him. Is your translation blessing having a problem -"

" - no. We thought it was, when it turned up things like that earlier, but I don't think it is. In Valinor two men cannot get married to each other and raise a child."

"That's... strange."

"Well, we think your way is disgusting and horrible."

"...why?"

" - it just seems so obvious I'm sincerely surprised aliens didn't know."

"It's not very common because it does complicate having kids considerably so people who don't have an overwhelming preference go with the opposite sex but beyond that I don't see... what difference it makes?"

"It's just - making something sexual that shouldn't be, like learning that somebody - wants children, or animals -"

"...that doesn't really make sense."

"Do those not disgust you either?"

"I mean the analogy doesn't make sense, there's - nothing in my marriage that you're even really saying shouldn't be sexual, just not with each other? I don't see what bringing children into it does to explain."

"It just isn't right."

...he sighs. "I really liked it here."

"You could get it fixed."

"I'm not sure I understand."

"That's what - if someone's like that here they just go to the Valar and the Valar make them attracted to women appropriately and no one blames them for having been sick."

"We've been married for thirty years and have a daughter."

"Yes, and once it was fixed her father could marry her mother."

"She's also married. I am not planning to destroy my marriage to amuse you."

She sighs and looks away from him. "The kids said you didn't touch them."

"...how did you get there from here?"

"There's something wrong with you and you have no idea that it's wrong, of course we were worried!"

"The two things have nothing to do with one another!"