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Prologue
It is 1980. I am sitting in a crowded bus, on my way to secondary school in
Cardiff. I am eleven or twelve years old. I already know that I am gay. I have
known this for a while, but as the bus approaches the school gates I
experience a sudden realisation that I will never have a girlfriend, get married,
settle down with a wife, or have children.
I look around me, at my brother, sister, friends, the other children on the bus,
and I understand that I am different from them. That I will have a different
life to theirs, that I will have other goals. That I must find a way in life. And
that I must keep this to myself.
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