"I really wanted to be a girl so bad, and that was one way for me to satisfy those feelings, " Madden said.

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For instance, at times the pain was so bad that all I wanted to do was lay in bed, but Dr Thomas has encouraged me to go out for a walk, or to sit in the garden.

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"I felt really bad about losing last time when I had match-point, so I just wanted to hang in there today, " she told the tournament's official Web site.

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So I did mention the Columbian situation in my article because I wanted to give credit to that view that says we shouldn't deal with kidnapping because the consequences are so bad.

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