"I can't say it's not painful being estranged from most of my family. I wish it could be otherwise."

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"I can't say it's not painful being estranged from most of my family. I wish it could be otherwise."

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"Big Brother is watching you."

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"Never give up your wife, husband, children and families. Believe that people can change. Give others opportunity to change."

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"Until now, you have always lived your life alone. Every decision you've made has been for you and you alone. Now, and for the rest of your days, your life will be tied to another's. Every decision you make will be for both of you. What one does affects the other. You are a family, a team inseparable and unbreakable."

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"I was sixteen and my mother was about to throw me out of the house forever, for breaking a very big rule, even bigger than the forbidden books. The rule was not just No Sex, but definitely No Sex With Your Own Sex."

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