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When family treats your sexual orientation as temporary

My parents keep asking when I'm going to bring home 'the right girl' and I've been out to them for three years but they still talk like it was a phase I'd grow out of.

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The deepest wound isn't rejection but the erasure of being seen as who you actually are.

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