I grew up a liberal thinker in a conservative Midwestern town, a homo-inclined jock on homophobic sports teams, and a black boy who attended mostly rich, white schools.
Oh, yeah, and I was the youngest kid in a lower middle class family full of angry and violent men.
If I weren't bent, something would be very, very wrong with me, and I'd be very, very worried.
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