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In his novel Too Late the Phalarope<\/em>, the South African writer Alan Paton described a man with a dark sexual secret, whose false self led to public disgrace and imprisonment. Here's how Paton described the man's double life:<\/p>\n\n

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He was always two men. The one was the soldier of the war, with all the English ribbons that his father hated; the Lieutenant in the police, second only to the captain; the great rugby player, hero of thousands of boys and men. 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