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I was raped. That was a hard thing to write about. I never owned that part of it. Guys don't look at themselves as being raped. We're not raised that way.

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Kevin Sessums
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 1
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I wasn't a [gay] activist, really.
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My father always wanted me to be president of the United States, and his fallback position was that I not become a ward of the county. I think my father was okay about my going into journalism, though.
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