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“I write about my childhood as I knew it then and as I lived it.” He may have sensed his difference, but he didn’t have words for it. He never discussed the fact that he is gay with his parents, but he thinks they knew and that’s why they never pressured him to marry and have children.

“They fell into accepting me the way I am, as many parents do, even when they don’t have the language to express their disappointment,” he says. It is a favour that Choy has returned, except that he has been lucky enough to have the words to transform their lives with grace and meaning.

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— Wayson Choy (Interview in Quill & Quire, 1999)

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