Eric Dakota

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Eric is a Texas native – born and bred, growing up in the suburbs of Houston, with family in the Midland area.

Eric has a BS in Theatre and has worked in regional theatre as an audio engineer as well as designing and installing audio-visual systems in corporate environments.

Like many kids Eric was forced out of the closet by circumstances outside his control – at least as far as to his parents. The experience wasn’t horrid, but it was still not the ideal coming-out experience. At the end of his senior year of high school he was brave enough to come out to one of his close friends – which went much better than he could have hoped.

At university Eric was out, unconcerned with what people thought of the whole situation. He had many great, and so
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First, I "read" this by listening to it as an audio book. I had a hard time differentiating between what Elio was thinking himself and what was going on around him. I'm not sure if I liked Armie Hammers reading. It was so... emotionally flat.

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“Cory groaned. “Mom. Stop. I don’t sing as much as I… uh… warble.”
Diane laughed and smiled at him sweetly. “Hey, you’re the one that signed up for choir. But trust me, you should look at being a chef long before you consider being a pop star.”
Eric Dakota, Except for Cough Drops
tags: cory, humor

“What asshats. Why can’t people just let people live their own lives?”
- Alicia”
Eric Dakota, Except for Cough Drops

“I think technically, in old people’s language, Travis and I are going ‘steady’.”
--Brian”
Eric Dakota, Except for Cough Drops

“Cory groaned. “Mom. Stop. I don’t sing as much as I… uh… warble.”
Diane laughed and smiled at him sweetly. “Hey, you’re the one that signed up for choir. But trust me, you should look at being a chef long before you consider being a pop star.”
Eric Dakota, Except for Cough Drops
tags: cory, humor

“What asshats. Why can’t people just let people live their own lives?”
- Alicia”
Eric Dakota, Except for Cough Drops

“If we worried about all the idiots in the world,” he said, “we’d never get anything done.”
-- Brian”
Eric Dakota, Except for Cough Drops

“I think technically, in old people’s language, Travis and I are going ‘steady’.”
--Brian”
Eric Dakota, Except for Cough Drops

“My beliefs are not very nuanced. I believe in a god that makes beautiful things, that he loves us all and weeps when we hate. I try not to hate, though admittedly, some people make it very difficult.”
Eric Dakota, Except for Cough Drops

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