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by Benoit Denizet-Lewis Austin, a gay 13-year-old from Oklahoma Austin didn’t know what to wear to his first gay dance last spring. It was bad enough that the gangly 13-year-old from Sand Springs, Okla., had to go without his boyfriend at the time, a 14-year-old star athlete at another middle school, but there were also laundry issues. “I don’t have any clean clothes!” he complained to me by text message, his favored method of communication. When I met up with him an hour later,

Pet Talk: Every Hurricane Report Stirs Up Images of Animals Lost By Sharon L. Peters, Special for USA TODAY I get edgy this time of year. Every report of another hurricane forming out at sea churns up memories, fear of what might happen again. And images I'm sure will never dim. Sept. 15, 2005: A dog stands on top of the wreckage of a home on 2nd Street at Oak Avenue in Gulfport, Miss., in the aftermath of Hurriicane Katrina. As columnist Sharon Peters discovered, the end o