“My dads had this epic love story. They publicly came out for each other, they paved the way for queer football players, and all the stories of them in the media, everything they showed me about relationships growing up, it almost seemed too good to be true. And every time I tried to have a real relationship in college with someone, I always felt like something was missing. I’d never experienced the thing that I’d been raised to believe was true love. I started to think it was all exaggerated in my head. That my expectations were too high. I thought true love meant having to settle for close
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