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Real Boy - A Family Thanksgiving, Apart - Clip
In this excerpt from the Independent Lens film Real Boy, trans friends Bennett and Dylan prepare a Thanksgiving dinner together, while Bennett also tries to reach out to his family. He offers to come see them but finds his dad and sister and all of them are in their own ways still really uncomfortable about him.
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