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When coming out costs you important relationships

My best friend since childhood stopped talking to me after I came out and I keep wondering if I should have just stayed in the closet to keep the friendship.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The price of authenticity can feel unbearable when it means losing the people who knew you first.

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