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ehind closed doors<br />
Do You<br />
Remember<br />
the<br />
First Time ?<br />
— Do you remember those dreams that you had when<br />
you were a kid, where you found yourself in your own<br />
house at night, padding about through the dim deserted<br />
rooms until, when you reached the top of the stairs, you<br />
found a door that w<strong>as</strong>n’t usually there? As you stepped<br />
through that door, the decor went polychrome, and you<br />
suddenly realised that there w<strong>as</strong> a parallel, brighter,<br />
wilder, world beyond the vision of normal people, yet<br />
somehow accessible from within your own house. Some<br />
people never forget that door. Some people cross through<br />
it all the time, leading one life in the public world, the<br />
other through a private sexual alter ego. We talk to three<br />
people about crossing the threshold, and <strong>as</strong>k them…<br />
Writer Hettie Judah<br />
44 — THE THIRD WORD
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