[ Dedication to Lenten sacrifices trumps the craving. More for Goodsir. ]
I’m glad you think so. And I know it’ll be hard. And dangerous. My family’s stricter than I am, they’ll probably want nothing to do with me.
[ A painful admission, for as much as he loves them, as defeated as he was by the library’s rejection of a couple of photos. But he thinks of everyone who needs this: of Mary, forced to choose her livelihood over her love, of Frankie who doesn’t have the luxury of being able to pass for straight, and Marcus who’s afraid to want him because of it. He thinks of sweet Bob, his first lover, wherever he is now. Still hiding, still singing God’s praises in the day and cursing Him at night for making him so abnormal. If he can help those people and the countless others like them, every sacrifice, every wound will be worth it. ]
There’s people I’d take with me though, if I could. Guess you’re one of them, now.
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Date: 2025-03-28 05:49 pm (UTC)I’m glad you think so. And I know it’ll be hard. And dangerous. My family’s stricter than I am, they’ll probably want nothing to do with me.
[ A painful admission, for as much as he loves them, as defeated as he was by the library’s rejection of a couple of photos. But he thinks of everyone who needs this: of Mary, forced to choose her livelihood over her love, of Frankie who doesn’t have the luxury of being able to pass for straight, and Marcus who’s afraid to want him because of it. He thinks of sweet Bob, his first lover, wherever he is now. Still hiding, still singing God’s praises in the day and cursing Him at night for making him so abnormal. If he can help those people and the countless others like them, every sacrifice, every wound will be worth it. ]
There’s people I’d take with me though, if I could. Guess you’re one of them, now.
[ Seeing as he’s got nothing to return to. ]