“I know I will never be happy but I know I can be gay!”

— Marilyn Monroe

As quoted in a letter to her psychiatrist, Dr. Greenson, in 1961. Fragments, by Stanley Buchthal and Bernard Comment (2010)

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American actress, model, and singer 1926–1962

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