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Author and activist Lucy Sante

Lucy Sante was a woman and not the man she’d pretended to be for decades. She introduced her friends to Lucy. Then, a Vanity Fair article introduced her to the world.
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Lucy Sante was a woman and not the man she’d pretended to be for decades. She introduced her friends to Lucy. Then, a Vanity Fair article introduced her to the world.

In 2021, Lucy Sante sent emails to her closest friends with the subject line "a bombshell."

A secret she’d been keeping for 60 years.

Lucy was a woman and not the man she’d pretended to be for decades.

She introduced her friends to Lucy. Then, a Vanity Fair article introduced her to the world.

The whole experience is detailed in her new book, I Heard Her Call My Name.

It’s a memoir about transition, and a story about accepting yourself, no matter your age.

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