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From the news team at LinkedIn, I'm Jesse Hempel, and this is Hello Monday.

In March of 2020, when quarantine descended, I was living in Brooklyn, New York, with my wife, Francis, and our baby.

We packed up our car and drove 18 hours south to her parents' home in Mississippi, where we took up residents in an upstairs bedroom.

For those first couple of weeks, I was really social.

Zoom cocktail hours and Zoom yoga, but as I grew more depressed, tired, all that socializing went away.

The only people I talk to every day were my family, my mom, my dad, my sister Katya, and my brother Evan, quarantining in five different homes in four different states.

Really, I think we talked every single day.

This closeness isn't something I would have anticipated for most of my life.

Growing up, my family was tough. Everyone struggled in all kinds of ways.

Then 20 years ago, like a chain reaction that can't stop once it's begun, we all came out.

I was first. I came out as gay. Three years later, my dad did too.

Then my sister announced she was bisexual.

My brother told us he was transgender, and my mom, she came out as a survivor of a series of heinous crimes.

In the quiet hours of the pandemic, with time to reflect, I began to wonder.

What did coming out do for us?

So I asked if I could interview everyone.

Mom, dad, Katya, and Evan.

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