– Do they know? That you're gay?– Why waste their time with it? It's not like it'll ever be an issue anyway.– Yeah, but, it's who you are, right?– I guess so, – he said. – I don't really know how to be any way else.– When did you know?– I was twelve, maybe. Something I just knew one day, even though I hadn't known it the day before.– So it's like that, huh? A feeling? Not just being into other dudes?– Oh no, it's that too. Of course it's that. But it's more, I think. Not so much a feeling as a fact, like having blue eyes or brown hair. It's just maybe something you don't discover until you're ready to understand it better.– Like being straight, – she said. Only we don't have to deal with all that closet bullshit.– Bingo, – he said. John Corey Whaley
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