58 Forbidden Crushes Part 3: My Secret Gay Crush

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🗓️ 24 April 2016

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Part 3 of our series on Forbidden Crushes features a closeted teen who wants to pour her heart out to her crush but fears outing herself. The Mortified Podcast is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. Listen @ getmortified.com/podcast

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0:00.0	Radio Tapio.
0:04.0	From PRX.
0:10.0	Dear diary.
0:11.0	6th grade. February 14th.
0:13.0	1991.
0:14.0	I am really depressed.
0:15.0	How could she break up with me?
0:17.0	Mom, you can't read this.
0:23.0	We lived in a little Philly-Schnere Glasgow.
0:26.0	It was a very small community of people in this particular area,
0:30.0	very much centered on the high school.
0:32.0	I would always be the one that dressed up as something really stupid
0:35.0	and unattractive and Halloween, like a tomato or something.
0:38.0	People expected strange things from me,
0:41.0	and I got good grades as well, which you know,
0:43.0	those people are always a bit suspect in high school.
0:45.0	They've been 90s, which is when I was growing up.
0:47.0	You just wouldn't tell people that you were gay.
0:49.0	There was nobody in the school who had come out as gay.
0:53.0	Certainly, that wasn't really a thing that you'd talk about.
0:58.0	From PRX and Radio Tapio,
1:00.0	this is the mortified podcast, I'm Neil.
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