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“I think he just runs people over so he can diagnose them later,” Tim said.
“So what’s it like being gay?”
“Love isn’t meant to be hidden away and life is too short for shame.
As he fell asleep, Ben couldn’t help picture Ms. Hughes, young and passionate, striding across the dance floor with determination but being stopped dead by the shaking of Sarah’s head.
His poem played the pronoun game and remained fairly neutral until the last couple of lines which were blatantly homosexual:
These photos would never be censored. They would be put in the paper without anyone ever questioning them or insisting they be altered. The people in those photos would always have their relationships accepted at the most basic level. They would never have to fear ridicule for something as innocent as holding hands in public.
because somehow being a disgruntled gay guy also meant he might be an arsonist.
Her name had better be a codename for him, like Benita, Benjamina, or something along those lines.
“Everything’s fucked up. Jesus, what did I let you do to me?” “Do to you? I didn’t ‘do’ anything. This isn’t a choice, you know. It’s who we are!” “Get away from me.”
“So proud to be near you, I found warmth beneath your wing, But you only covered me so they couldn’t see a thing.”
“There’s a coward and a fool, and both of them are you, My heart is cracked and broken, but yours is frozen through.”
Love isn’t meant to be hidden away. Life is too short for shame.
And since Ben was dead anyway… “Technically I said she was skanky,” he corrected, furious at being exposed to such an ignorant primate when he wasn’t in school. “She’s also a brain-dead snob, but I guess that’s your common bond, isn’t it?”
One man’s crotch is another man’s target!
TV had given him a false impression of snow.
we shouldn’t ignore them. It only hurts worse if we do.”
Life couldn’t have been better.
Was it possible to love two people at the same time?
Live for yourself, Tim. Decorate the house with your paintings. Don’t hide them away. Don’t hide yourself away either.
