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“I now realize that I am a gay man before anything else. Other gays may think they're a Jew first, or black, or a banker, but I'm gay.”

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“Holy shit," somebody muttered in the dark. "A virgin," sputtered another. "I didn't know they still made them." "He just did.”

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I don't mind about the dead ones. They're dead. The worst of it is, they cling to the living and won't let go.

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By nature, Im an optimistic person. No one believes it, but I am.

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“There will always be enemies. Time to stop being your own.”

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