LGBTQIA/Self/Relationships
Is Fitting In Enough for You?
Nothing is more lonely than pretending to be someone you’re not
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7 min readOct 16, 2020
When I was nine-years-old, I called my widowed mother at her work and sobbed, “I can’t get the lawnmower started again.”
She responded, “Of course you can. You’re a man, aren’t you?” How does one answer that…