Cheryl Chow calls life in closet a "waste"

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14. This is an important point. If everything happens for a reason,

there was a reason (and good ones) why gay people stayed in the closet years ago - because to come out entailed so many huge personal costs.

While everyone who is in their later years wishes to be remembered as Mother Teresa, Cheryl didn't need to come out in order to achieve some semblance of Saint Teresa's record - she did it in other ways.

The fact that she came out now is icing on the cake, IMO, and shout-out to her here!