another reversal??

[Victor Steinbok]

I'm not even sure what to think here... Take a look at "adapted" in the
snippet below.

http://goo.gl/CBdZ2

> I was sitting on a beach on that vacation in the summer of 2011,
> exactly 40 years after Merle Miller's essay "What It Means to Be a
> Homosexual" first appeared in the New York Times Magazine, when I
> opened On Being Different, the book Miller adapted from that essay.

Perhaps I'm misreading it.

     VS-)

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