You would think I’d be scared. Nervous. Frightened. Shocked. Horrified. Confused. Any normal person would be. I just smiled. Smiled as if I’d just been handed the world’s largest lollipop and told I could take all the time I wanted in sucking it. I was so hard, too. My father slapped my back and laughed as if he knew the effect this had on me. I dream of that day. I've replayed that moment in my head over and over and over. That was the day I really became a man.
