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" In my personal life, I was quite a different Boy Next Door than the one Mr. and Mrs. Middle America imagined me to be. "

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" A lot has been written about Tony Perkins and myself and I figured, Let's get it straight. I had a relationship with Tony for two to three years, but those are only threads in the tapestry of my whole life. "