Before Jeremy, Andy had been an expert at retreating. Always making an effort to hide how he felt and who he was, measuring himself against the other kids in the room. How did the boys move? Speak? How did the girls? How did the white kids? How did the Black kids? The few other kids who were neither? To what extent could he borrow from one without being admonished or ridiculed by another? Jeremy changed all of that. Andy had never before felt the power and weight of a mutual, romantic love. Being with Jeremy peeled back a layer of artifice, leaving him feeling new and alive, but also
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