American - Celebrity | March 14, 1969 -
It won't take 40 years for opposition to same-sex marriage to dissipate.
Mary Cheney
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I always knew that there was something that made me different, and by the time I was in high school, I understood what it was.
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I'd rather not be known as the Vice President's lesbian daughter.
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Life would be so much harder if I had to lie about who I was.
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It wasn't a secret that I was gay. I'd come out to my parents during my junior year of high school, on the day that I also wrecked the family car.
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After being sworn in to office, vice presidents have usually been relegated to the sidelines, where they just don't get to do very much.
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Campaign staffers develop the ability to sleep through anything.
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Campaigning in Wyoming is politics at its most retail level. It's done one voter at a time.
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Early numbers are always wrong.
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Having loving and supporting parents didn't make me feel any better about the possibility of seeing my personal life splashed across newspapers and tabloids.
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Heather and I decided we were going to be pretty low-key at the convention.
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I came very close to quitting my job for the Bush-Cheney '04 campaign. I seriously considered packing up my office and heading home to Colorado.
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