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I know one gay ex-Mormon who is a talented, self-destructive alcoholic. Whenever he is drunk and going on a tear, we are back to the Mormon Church and his being thrown out of the Mormon Church and growing up with this sense of being evil.

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Andrew Solomon
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: October 30
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Clinical Psychologist
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