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But two years into their live-in relationship, Tarun accidentally found out that not only was Rehaan a sex worker but that he identified as straight. Rehaan confessed that he had begun to sleep with men when he was in college because it meant straightforward money to pay off bills. Over the years, by harnessing the authority of social media and dating apps, he had built a steady client base of rich and usually older me
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