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Markdown
41 lines
980 B
Markdown
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date: 2019-08-20
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weight: 35
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Telling dad was the second time I came out to family deliberately.
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> The third.
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Third?
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> You told Aunt Patty that you were gay back before high school.
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I...did not remember that.
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> Not until just now, apparently.
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Apparently. I have no recollection of what I said. I have no recollection of what *she* said.
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I have no recollection of her.
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> Hazy images at grandma's.
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I guess.
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> Memories surrounding her.
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Lots of those.
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> Memories of when she and her family got stranded on a sailboat between Cuba and Florida and rescued by a cruise ship. Grandma and dad smug in their assessment that she was stupid and irresponsible.
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A vague, heavily pixelated picture shot by one of the cruise boat attendants.
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> "She's crazy," they said. "She has too many kids. They draw all over the walls. Her house is wild. She's crazy."
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And me, with with my secret. My little pet lie I kept hidden from them.
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> Tell me about coming out to dad.
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I will.
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