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article_snippet.sent: I have respectfully kept his secrets private and would have taken his confidences to my grave had his not spoken out," Bruce Jenner said in a column for the Huffington Post.
article_snippet.sent: Looking back, I'm so grateful to God, the universe, and Bruce that I didn't know, and that Bruce played the role in my life that Bruce did," Thompson said in a column for the Huffington Post.
article_snippet.sent: Bruce Jenner's star grew, and was a man that other men aspired to be, and someone women wanted to be with.
article_snippet.sent: I knew back then was unstudied, affable, and seemingly very comfortable in Bruce own skin.
article_snippet.sent: "I was pretty ignorant of the fact that being transgender isn't something that can be overcome, fixed, prayed away, exorcised or obliterated by any other arcane notion," Thompson said.
article_snippet.sent: In addition to "world's greatest athlete," Thompson hopes people will remember Thompson as "trailblazer for the civil rights of the transgender community.