"Andersen certainly experienced same-sex love as well: he wrote to Edvard Collin:[21] "I languish for you as for a pretty Calabrian wench... my sentiments for you are those of a woman. The femininity of my nature and our friendship must remain a mystery." Collin, who preferred women, wrote in his own memoir: "I found myself unable to respond to this love, and this caused the author much suffering.""-Wikipedia. It is an unproven theory by Rictor Norton in My Dear Boy: Gay Love Letters through the Centuries.
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