Many of my friends had no choice but to get married and live a lie because they couldn't bear the disappointment of their families.

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So after having, he explains, "endured years of misery and gone to enormous lengths to live a lie, " Collins became the first active player in one of the four major U.S. pro sports leagues to come out as gay.

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We cannot afford to cut from our ranks people with the critical skills we need to fight any more than we can afford -- for our military's integrity -- to force those willing to do so into careers encumbered and compromised by having to live a lie.

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Police had even trained him in counter-surveillance after he was told he would have to "live and hold a lie" for the rest of his life.

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In the words of the pre-sentence report he had 'a legacy life' - a complete change of identity - 'He was trained by the police in counter-surveillance and has had to live and hold a lie for the rest of his life.

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The Jacksons' lawyer called this e-mail "a flat out lie, " since AEG Live had not done a background check on Murray before hiring him -- and if they had it would have disclosed that he was in deep debt and not a successful doctor.

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As the Intel-based Windows 8 begins to proliferate across a wide range of devices and developers seek to capitalize on distribution via the Windows app store, a broader mosaic of Live Tiles will lie waiting to take advantage of Surface's attractive hardware options.

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Most so-called Parisians live outside the historic inner city, in a patchwork of communes and communities that lie beyond the outer ring road.

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