Is sexuality not often clearly in evidence by age 14? Maybe teenage bisexuality is the more natural person. Just because social shaming, etc., remove same-sex desire doesn't make it a youthful, hormonal quirk of existence to be written off.

Anne writes more about her anomalous desires and 'outsider' status, as I write about in my new piece, so I think the status of queer is appropriate. I cite Cheryl D. Hann's reading of the diary as a queer text.

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And she died of typhoid fever.