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to my family.

It wouldn't be fair to my mom.

And I just had to visualize

What the experience

would be like for them

If I did take my life.

And it wouldn't be worth it.

Also, on some level,

I must have believed

That, somehow, someday,

There's gonna be someone

out there

Who's gonna love me for me.

- Tom just had this presence.

He had this energy.

He was always singing

and laughing

And enjoying life so much.

- # there was a decorated general

with a heart of gold #

- He was at the top of his class.

He was a leader

in all aspects of the word,

In sports, and in school.

- # on the battlefield...

- Every time you met tom,

It felt like you were meeting

your best friend.

And it didn't matter

who you were...

He always had your back.

I think tom went to culver

Instead of the high school

in his hometown

Because he saw

it as an opportunity

To open his horizons,

And, you know, his parents

played a big role in that.

His mom worked at culver

Primarily so that they could

afford the reduced tuition

So that tom would have

all those opportunities.

He came out to me

our senior year.

It was at night, and we were

sitting in the grass,

And I remember he got really

serious all of a sudden,

And he said, "I have something

to tell you...

I'm gay. "

Then he put his head in his lap,

And he was crying

and really emotional about it.

I think he was really afraid

of being judged.

It didn't surprise me at all.

This is coming

from my friend who,

Probably three or four

weeks ago,

Was singing "I'm a barbie girl,"

While jumping on a trampoline

in his backyard.

- He knew everybody,

and everybody knew him.

I felt like

my popularity scale rose

Just because

I hung out with him.

Tom was friends

with anne hathaway in school.

He also was friends

with tom hanks' daughter.

I never could wrap

my mind around it,

Because here was tom,

this sort of midwestern,

Corn-fed,

american-pie-eating guy,

Who came

from this tiny town in indiana,

Who then went

to military school.

He was able

to get along and succeed

In that entire social circle

and academic circle

And then went to vassar,

which is this liberal place

And a completely different vibe.

He just sort of was magic.

- Tom, for as beautiful as he was

and, you know

The fact that he knew

how beautiful he was,

He did not care at all

about how other people looked.

And he did not care

where you came from,

What car you drove.

He just accepted anybody

and everybody for who they were,

And I think because he was gay

And because

he knew what it was like

To be not the mainstream,

normal person.

He told me many times

How much he respected me because

I was hearing-impaired.

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