“You’re probably wondering why this is news to you since I’ve known since midnight. It’s because I was willing to die without telling you because I don’t believe you care about my life. I am your only son. Your firstborn. The reason you became parents, and you never even tried to love me once I told you I’m gay.” They both wince, like I’ve said a bad word. Like I’m bad. “There will come a time when you have to reckon with how you made me so unwelcomed that I moved away. But I want to thank you for being so unloving because it pushed me out of your house and into the arms of a boy with the
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