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Taking Measure

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Wyatt Vreeland

Reflections on Growing Up Gay and the Solace of Science

June 26, 2019

I was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in the mid-’70s into a blue-collar family. My father was a carpenter and my mother was a homemaker. My family was of modest means

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