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My brother is coming to visit in a few days, and I want to come out to him, but I am also absolutely terrified. How did y’all handle coming out to your families?

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[-] kivihiili 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

ink and cardstock!!

honestly just went "well its gotta happen after some time" so we just decided to send it. we were a bit of a very extremely nervous wreck with us posting this in the morning but it went well in the end. still was very much a late night impulse hehe, in fact we wrote the note the night before so we didn't have the time to convince ourselves it was a bad idea in the morning.

(mothers reaction was, pretty much she was not surprised at all. sister was completely dumbfounded at how she didn't realize...)

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