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It seems that when a BBC reporter knocked on his door recently, he came out pretending to stab her several times with a banana.
{ {Boys 1#36194}} Boys Don't Cry --a just-released dramatic film about a woman who was raped and murdered in a small Nebraska town for pretending to be a man--hews fairly closely to what really happened to 21-year-old Brandon Teena (nee Teena Brandon).
But he may just be a person who things happen to happen to, a guy with a penchant for pretending to be what others want to believe that he is.
But since such pedarastic revelations are (surprisingly) rare, pols sometimes must settle for the next best thing: pretending that their opponent coddles child molesters.
Among other things, he gave several hundred thousand dollars to GOPAC, Newt Gingrich's campaign organization pretending to be an educational foundation.