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235 pages, Paperback
First published June 8, 2006
I would see my father one more time after this. But we would never discuss our shared predilection again.
With my father's death following so hard on the heels of this doleful coming-out party, I could not help but assume a cause-and-effect relationship.
If I had not felt compelled to share my little sexual discovery, perhaps the semi would have passed without incident four months later.
Why had I told them? I hadn't even had sex with anyone yet. Conversely, my father had been having sex with men for years and not telling anyone.
In a way, you could say that my father's end was my beginning. Or more precisely, that the end of his life coincided with the beginning of my truth.
I would see my father one more time after this. But we would never discuss our shared predilection again.
He was an alchemist of appearance, a savant of surface, a daedalus of decor.