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Both Sides Now

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It all started, for real, a bit over a month before my sixteenth birthday.

See, I'd known for a long, long time, since I was five or six, that I was different from other people.

The problem I had is that my dad is sometimes a bit of a macho prick and I'm his only son. I have three sisters, one older, two younger. Mom isn't a problem, she's quite open-minded, but I would be very surprised if what I want didn't at least surprise her a bit.


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A TG Technology Giant Remembered

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One of the leaders memorialized in the Wired Enterprise article 11 Who Died in 2011 (And Were Not Named Steve) is Ashawna Hailey, who first shook Silicon Valley as a microprocessor architect who led AMD's development of the Am9080, AMD's clone of the 8080, then went on to co-develop HSPICE, back when she was known as Shawn.

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