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As the end of a particularly trying year approaches, social media users are embracing nostalgic, lighthearted distraction with gusto, so much so that when songwriter and Twitter user Ben Pasek put something of a personal statement to his 50,000 followers, everyone jumped on board.
That statement was: 'Tell me you're gay without telling me you're gay.'
It didn't take long for Pasek's gay followers to bring in the childhood gold.
"This is me after I first saw The Little Mermaid at a cinema," one user replied, sharing a photo of himself dressed up as a mermaid.
Drag star Trixie Mattel even got in on the thread, sharing a photo of her well-documented vintage Barbie collection.
"When I was a kid, my friends’ Mums would often let me call them by their first names," another follower replied.
Another shared a childhood photo of him playing with the dolls his sister received for Christmas, writing: "I'll tell you in a photo from Christmas 1969. I'm 3. Me not playing with my new train but instead my sister's new doll."
He added: "Nothing wrong - at all - with others playing with dolls...but, me..."
Australian Joel Meares, Editor of Rotten Tomatoes, chimed in with, "The first single I ever bought, when I was 11, was Runaway by The Corrs."
However, perhaps the sweetest of all replies came from someone named Tommy, who shared the inscription his maths teacher wrote in his eighth grade year book: "Tommy, keep me posted on all the celebrity news! I will miss you."
The teacher added: "Good luck with all you do," the 'all' double underlined.
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