Several months later, Mooallem would reach out to another of Brink’s acolytes in the Our Town cast, Bob Deloach—the young gay man with the coke-bottle glasses, who, in 2014, became one half of the first same-sex couple to legally marry in Alaska. When Deloach picked up the phone, Mooallem mentioned, by way of introduction, that he had already met with Deloach’s old friend Robert Pond. Deloach explained that Pond had just passed away.
