Word: falkner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sense of not belonging can begin in adolescence or before. Even the most sensitive parents want to disbelieve a daughter's assertion of homosexuality and may dismiss their child's hard-won sense of sexual identity as "just a phase." Mary Falkner, 21, a senior at Queens College in New York City, recalls that when she came out to her mother, "she took it great. But she asked, 'Do you want to tell the rest of the family?' Without waiting to hear my answer, she said, 'Good...