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Gosh durn it, I don't like speculating about the sex lives of politicians, but I wonder if that "I think I might be gay or at least bi" wasn't the male version of college-age women dabbling in being lesbian? In order to make themselves more interesting than plain vanilla whitebread (if you excuse that in this context) conventional personality?
It's a great way of faking sincerity: oh, I feel so comfortable with you I can access my emotional side and talk about my deepest fantasies. All in the service of getting into someone's pants, which if they were dating at the time, seems to have worked. He started college at the very end of the 70s so there might have been some of that 70s sexual liberation politics still going around then, where being not-a-plain boring straight-guy gives you added value in the dating market.
I have to agree with the above, that if there was any ex-boyfriend (even of the drunken college boys messing around variety), we'd have heard of it by now, they'd have rushed to the media to peddle their story. So all confined to fantasies, that he's writing in letters to his girlfriend, and may not even be real fantasies, just something he made up to pique her interest.
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