and that's a promise

I am not an American citizen. When someone asks me why, I tell them I have "lingering doubts." That's a line I have borrowed from a Seinfeld episode; it was Jerry's response when someone asked him why he wasn't an organ donor.

I am an organ donor, but it's true I have had lingering doubts when it comes to citizenship.

Proposition 8, which eliminated same-sex couples' right to marry, and the fact that California's Supreme Court voted yesterday to uphold it, changes that for me, though.

I'll become a citizen so that I can vote for equal rights in 2010, or 2012, or any year after that.

and do your part for everyone's right to marry

Listen to Regina Spector, and prepare to have your heart broken.