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Title: 'I was trying to hide what I was born to be'
Post by: Butterfly on October 19, 2010, 05:38:25 PM
Post by: Butterfly on October 19, 2010, 05:38:25 PM
'I was trying to hide what I was born to be'
By Sarah Foster
19 October, 2010
http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/familylife/39I-was-trying-to-hide.6588678.jp (http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/familylife/39I-was-trying-to-hide.6588678.jp)
It was a bombshell big enough to blow their marriage apart. But for 28 years, the only person John Reilly did confide in was his wife, Sue.
While others had no idea that he wore women's clothes in private, she was the one person who knew the truth.
Employed as a carpenter, he'd go to work wearing women's underwear and at home Sue would sometimes call him Jackie.
By Sarah Foster
19 October, 2010
http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/familylife/39I-was-trying-to-hide.6588678.jp (http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/familylife/39I-was-trying-to-hide.6588678.jp)
It was a bombshell big enough to blow their marriage apart. But for 28 years, the only person John Reilly did confide in was his wife, Sue.
While others had no idea that he wore women's clothes in private, she was the one person who knew the truth.
Employed as a carpenter, he'd go to work wearing women's underwear and at home Sue would sometimes call him Jackie.