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I covered myself back up as quickly as I could. But I didn’t run. I didn’t know what to do. I sat there until he came back in. And then we talked. Rather, he talked, I listened. He talked for a long time. He calmed me. He comforted me.

“You’re progressing so well. You have so much talent, your legs are so strong, you have limitless potential. You know, people like us have to support each other. We’re not like others. They would never understand who we are. They don’t see things the way we do. I know you’re a bit lost right now, but I understand you. I see who you are and what you can be. People like us have to look out for each other. We have to support each other. But people like us, working together, can make anything happen.”

That expression again: “people like us.”

Graham had just shown me he was different. Now, with those words, he was telling me. Maybe he had been telling me all along and I just hadn’t understood. I thought “people like us” had referred to the talented jock as geek, geek as jock. Now, with what had just happened, I was pretty sure he was telling me that I was gay.