As Cicero said, the beginnings of all things are small, and so was this one. At its beginning, at the impetus, there was simply something one person thought should be public that another thought was private; that one person thought was funny and that the other believed was serious. I don’t want them to know. It’s not their business. It’s not who I am. It’s not how I want them to see me. He is upset. His boyfriend is upset, upset that he is upset. Thiel’s frenzied mind races now, as it had for others written about by Gawker. The instinct to curl into a ball. The hope that this will go away. The
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