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I didn’t come out of the closet gracefully. No, I tripped out of the closet.

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Two weeks before I began my first semester of graduate school, you left me. You left me shocked, broken, and alone right before I started one of the most stressful periods of my life.

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With all this recent emphasis on so-called “party photography” in the last decade or so, it might seem that “party pics” are a new kind of genre. But as far as I can tell, the genre extends at least as far back as Andy Warhol’s Interview magazine, which launched in 1969 as a title focused primarily on interviews with film stars and personalities of the period.