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"I’m not interested in going home. I just want to drive my truck."
2:07
"I’m not interested in going home. I just want to drive my truck."
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"I had this wild thing in my mind that everything that happened on September 11th was my fault."
2:42
"I had this wild thing in my mind that everything that happened on September 11th was my fault."
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"I felt like this weight had just been lifted out of me."
"I felt like this weight had just been lifted out of me."
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"It’s not his bad days that are hard, it’s my bad days that are hard."
"It’s not his bad days that are hard, it’s my bad days that are hard."
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"You're like a little piece of Mommy on Earth."
2:45
"You're like a little piece of Mommy on Earth."
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"The way that I look at my job as a vendor, I’m a professional athlete."
2:09
"The way that I look at my job as a vendor, I’m a professional athlete."
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"It would have been so hard on you if we had lived our life in the open."
"It would have been so hard on you if we had lived our life in the open."
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"I have Down syndrome and I consider it a gift, but at first I thought it was a curse."
"I have Down syndrome and I consider it a gift, but at first I thought it was a curse."
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"I thought that this was going to be a recipe for disaster."
2:35
"I thought that this was going to be a recipe for disaster."
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"The fact is that he couldn’t be who he wanted to be back then."
2:24
"The fact is that he couldn’t be who he wanted to be back then."
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"He was proud to be the person to challenge that law."
2:19
"He was proud to be the person to challenge that law."
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"Nobody wanted to work with me."
1:59
"Nobody wanted to work with me."
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"That was the only thing we could do to legalize our relationship."
2:33
"That was the only thing we could do to legalize our relationship."
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“Having CF is like being in a boat with a hole in it.”
“Having CF is like being in a boat with a hole in it.”
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"Do you remember when I first told you that I wore women's clothes?"
3:03
"Do you remember when I first told you that I wore women's clothes?"
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"It kinda threw me for a whammy."
2:13
"It kinda threw me for a whammy."
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"What was going through your head when you first saw me?"
2:37
"What was going through your head when you first saw me?"
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"At the age of 18, I didn't know what I was going to be doing with my life."
3:15
"At the age of 18, I didn't know what I was going to be doing with my life."
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"When I first saw him, I turned him down."
2:58
"When I first saw him, I turned him down."
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"Hello, my name is Yusor Abu-Salha."
"Hello, my name is Yusor Abu-Salha."
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