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I’ll never forget that warm, summer day in June. I had just come out of the closet to my parents and my brother the week prior. Aside from a few raised eyebrows, my announcement was met with very little drama. “Thanks for a grand statement of the obvious,” my kid brother, Jared, said with a devlish grin as he flung my no-longer-hidden copy of the latest issue of The Advocate on the table. My parents had even said that I should pursue whatever was right for me and that I had their full support.Anyway, I was sitting in my f...
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