So this is the most aggressive form of assimilation where you desire to change the underlying identity altogether. And it's very difficult, Shankar, for me to remember that young man knelt down in prayer because he so ardently wish the annihilation of the human being I have become.
So I'm now currently, happily married. My husband and I have 2 kids and so on and so forth, but that would have been unimaginable to that young man. ◈ 15:59 This is 1991. Hmm. He just thought, if I'm gonna have any kind of life at all, not just a professional life, but also, perhaps more importantly, to him at the time, a personal life of marriage and children, that it was inconceivable that you could be an openly gay person and have that life.
So what I desperately wanted was to convert and to change the underlying identity.
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