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Friday, October 06, 2006

Once In A While, A NYT LtE Hits The Nail Directly On The Head


To the Editor:

“A Complex and Hidden Life Behind Ex-Representative’s Public Persona” (news article, Oct. 5) is a treatise on the nature of the closet, where pretense becomes a way of life.

The risk is that deception becomes normalized, artifice takes the place of reality, and the ability to discern legitimacy is compromised.

Mark Foley is a particularly extreme example, but the closet is a dangerous place — for everyone.

Russell Granger
Brooklyn, Oct. 5, 2006

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