I knew somehow that applied to me, recalled Cagle, now the editorial director of PEOPLE and EW.
I can still see those words and I will never forget them.
No one ever succeeded by being just like everybody else.

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Moving forward, GLSENs mission is to help a million more students in an additional 26,000 schools by 2020.

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