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TIL 50s Movie Director Ed Wood was a secret cross dresser whose SO did not know, he made and starred in a movie about about a secret cross dresser whose SO did not know and cast his real life SO as the movie character's SO. She eventually rejected him in real life, just as her movie character did.

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