If I could go back and tell that scared kid with the pressure of the world of hockey breathing down his neck that pro hockey is not in his future—at least not in the way he thinks it will be—and that he’ll find himself in an NHL locker room one day talking about how much he loves a man and that his team actually supports it … Past Colby would probably cry. Because this is the world I want to be living in. It’s the world every queer person should be living in. We deserve happiness too, and I’ve found mine. With Novi.