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"My father never thought of me as a true man. He would always say I prefer womanly pursuits and that everything I did was going to turn me into a homosexual. My admission of such an assault would have confirmed his suspicions.  I'm not interested in men, I want to clarify. I don't hate the community that practices that, but I don't want to be labeled something just because I don't like the things that I'm supposed to. I couldn't admit it, that would give him even more ammunition to degrade me." Henry was breathing heavily as this was something that brought him a lot of pain over the years. "It was just one of those things that I knew I would have to shoulder through to get over. I knew my father had failed me."