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I had to confront the worst and admit that, in certain phases of my life, each of their critiques of my character had been true. Some still surface on a particularly difficult day, even now. I am about to expose my rotten soul to you. It will be easy to despise anyone that self-involved when [...]

Rejection slips were tough but par for the course. What was to come was a painful penetrating barrage of attacks from people who were ostensibly my friends and were fellow Christians. They looked at me in the way that leaders of the Spanish Inquisition must have looked at Muslims, Jews, and heretics and said such [...]

In the midst of this grim plod through the wasteland came a wonderful unexpected oasis. A talented young gay man came to work in the art department. We became friends, went to parties, dined together on lunch hour at a clever little restaurant that offered a floor show of local comedians. I told him about [...]