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Ruth Birch and Julia Curry served in the British Army together in the early 1990s when it was still illegal to be gay in the military.
“The love I had for Ruth, I wanted to share,” says Ju. “When you first fall in love with somebody you want to tell the world and we had to keep it secret because of our careers. It was like living a double life.” “So, I was under pressure to do my job professionally and the pressure to hide my identity. I had to keep it behind closed doors. It put so much mental pressure on myself."“They couldn't find any evidence that they could get to stick to dishonourably discharge us or just throw us out,” says Ruth. “So, they sent Ju to Cyprus for six months to split us up.
“I wasn't very good with IT,” says Ruth."I didn't know you could get messages on Facebook, so I didn't read it for three months. But it was from Ju. She got her mate to send a message to me, she just wondered how I was.
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