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Luckily for me I have a very supportive family and a loving group of friends.

~Andrew Rannells

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I feel very fortunate that while I had a little bit of personal panic or maybe a little internal struggle as a teenager, really coming to terms with the fact that I was gay, and also knowing I was going to have to tell my family. And, how was that going to affect things? And would it affect things? And ultimately, it did not.

~Andrew Rannells

Topics: Affect Also Bit Coming Did Fact Family Feel Fortunate Gay Going Had How Internal Knowing Little Little Bit Maybe Panic Personal Really Struggle Teenager Tell Terms Things Ultimately Very While Would I Feel

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Coming to New York to go to school and being very far away from my own family, I definitely found myself piecing together my sort of chosen family here, and I have friends that I'm still very close with, that we all met at the same time and have become a huge part of each other's lives.

~Andrew Rannells

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When I came out when I was 18, and I graduated from high school, and I felt like that was the time to officially say it, I surprised zero people in my family.

~Andrew Rannells

Topics: Came Family Felt Graduated High High School Like Officially Out People Say School Surprised Time Zero I Came

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When I was young, I colored in the line drawings in vintage editions of the Oz books that had been handed down through generations in my family. This was a bad thing to do.

~Andrew Rosenthal

Topics: Bad Bad Thing Been Books Colored Down Drawings Family Generations Had Handed Line Oz Thing Through Vintage Young

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I can still remember the first time I heard a Beatles song. It was the fall of 1964, my second year in an American school after my family moved back from overseas, and I was standing on the corner of 64th street and First Avenue with my friend Larry Campbell.

~Andrew Rosenthal

Topics: After American Avenue Back Beatles Campbell Corner Fall Family First First Time Friend Heard Larry Moved My Friend Overseas Remember School Second Song Standing Still Street Time Year I Can

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Several companies have explicit policies against cronyism, with good reason. Hiring a family member simply for a relationship can be troubling and may not necessarily serve a company's interests. But by and large, financial firms in particular commonly hire people who have certain connections, whether through family or a business relationship.

~Andrew Ross Sorkin

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'The Story Of A Marriage' was initially a short story I wrote, and before that, it was a family story. It was a story that a relative of mine told me about herself in the '50s, and it was a story that no one else in my family believes, and it might not be true.

~Andrew Sean Greer

Topics: About Be True Before Believes Else Family Herself Initially Marriage Me Might Mine Relative Short Short Story Story True Wrote

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I was on Oprah's show recently talking about the people who impacted me the most. One was a teacher and one was my soccer coach. I didn't even go into my family, who had the most influence.

~Andrew Shue

Topics: About Coach Even Family Go Had Impacted Influence Me Most Oprah People Recently Show Soccer Talking Teacher Who

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When I was growing up, I kept hoping that I wasn't really gay because I wanted to have children. I went through a long, tortured period, so the fact that I have been able to be true to myself and have a family has been the nicest surprise of my adulthood.

~Andrew Solomon

Topics: Able Adulthood Be True Because Been Children Fact Family Gay Growing Growing Up Hoping Kept Long Myself Nicest Period Really Surprise Through Tortured True Up Wanted

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