"“Some of those conversations go weird,” Whaley told LGBTQ Nation. “We have a semi-pro hockey team in the area, and I was sitting down with one of the directors."

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"In the middle of the conversation, he says, ‘So do you have a brother? I went to high school with someone named blah blah blah,’ and they said my dead name. I’m like, ‘That’s me.’ And they’re like, ‘Whoa, what?’”"
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"They said, “You need to run for something.” I wasn’t quite sure what that would be. It wasn’t on my bingo card to run."
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