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When your upbringing is a wealthy brew of Catholicism, Baptism, and evangelical summer camps, all played out against the patriarchal backdrop of Alabama, your intense attraction to other teen girls is best buried deep.  The Sunday Essay is made possible because of the support of Creative Recent Zealand. Illustrations by Sarah Larnach When I used to be 12, at an all girls’ Christian summer camp in North Carolina, I got my first gay crush. She had silky black hair and almond eyes and a smile that split me open. The primary time I saw her, we were within the dining hall. There was something concerning the way she took up the entire pitch-sized hall – her skin electric, outweighing the scale and sound...