listen!!! the pause in a parent’s sentence before they awkwardly refer to me w gender neutral language to their kids is what keeps me going in life!! we are not perfect but we try and try and try!!!!!
men over 60 like me because i remind them of their schoolyard friend’s older brother, who was soft in a new and confusing way, who made them feel ashamed and excited all at once, and who left their small town the moment he turned 18 on the back of a mysterious man’s motercycle