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I have known many people who were seduced as children by same-sex partners and then spent their teen years being gay, and then found their way back to heterosexuality as adults.

Nell Zink

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Nell Zink
Age: 54
Novelist
Writer
CA
Helen Zink
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Teen
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Partners
Children
Gay
Years
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Adults
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Heterosexuality

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