Just What We Need: Fun with Neil Patrick Harris's and David Burtka's Twins (Video)

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Just What We Need: Fun with Neil Patrick Harris's and David Burtka's Twins
These two Instagram posts by NPH's husband will make you smile, and isn't that what you need right about now?
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          Jan 27, 2017
          
        
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The Advocate's news editor Dawn Ennis successfully transitioned from broadcast journalism to online media following another transition that made headlines; in 2013, she became the first trans staffer in any major TV network newsroom. As the first out transgender editor at The Advocate, the native New Yorker continues her 30-year media career, in which she has earned more than a dozen awards, including two Emmys. With the blessing of her three children, Dawn retains the most important job title she's ever held: Dad.
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Just What We Need: Fun with Neil Patrick Harris's and David Burtka's Twins

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Just What We Need: Fun with Neil Patrick Harris's and David Burtka's Twins

These two Instagram posts by NPH's husband will make you smile, and isn't that what you need right about now?

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The proposal applies to public K-12 schools and extends to colleges in the Palmetto State.

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Organizers with Mayday Health say the message is meant to affirm trans Kansans as state policy moves to erase them from public life.

The measure now heads to a Republican-controlled Senate, where similar efforts have stalled before.

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