Who I am now is who I must be: a flawed human striving to live in a state of becoming. Along the way I’ve discovered a thing or more about myself: that who and how I love is not dictated by law or blood, that being a constant presence is as much a part of being a man as almost anything else, that what I want must be earned, that I can win and win I will, that there’s hustle in my genes, that either I swim or drown and there is no one more important to that outcome than me.
