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Outing someone is like ripping a butterfly from its cocoon. You can damage them for life and rob them of THEIR life changing experience of liberation. For a successful emergence THEY have to struggle through the cocoon of fear and shame. THEN they can fly.

Anthony Venn-Brown

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Anthony Venn-Brown
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: March 13
Writer
Experience
Butterfly
Someone
Liberation
Life
Damage
Like
Changing
Outing
Shame
Cocoon
Struggle
Cocoons
Successful
Ripping
Fear
Emergence

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