I’ve come to understand what she needed, and to accept that I couldn’t give it to her. She wanted the version of me she carried in her memories. I wanted to be known as who I truly am.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/the-queer-kid-she-never-really-knew-when-a-friendship-ends-with-a-text-7d93d59a6b92

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The Queer Kid She Never Really Knew: When a Friendship Ends with a Text

Coming out meant becoming myself and losing the people who only loved the mask.

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