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+date: 2019-08-20
+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?
+
+> 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.
+
+> Hazy images at grandma's.
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+I guess.
+
+> 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.