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When I was fourteen, I kissed an altar boy, and it changed my life.

No reader, I didn’t marry him. But that single, passionless kiss changed everything. Or so my life story, as I choose to tell it, goes. At fourteen, I played community and school hockey, I acted, I studied, and I danced. I danced outside the Eurovision Song Contest in Millstreet in 1994. I was going places.