There’s something I feel I need to get off my chest.
I’m tired of living in the shadows and tired of being shunned by politically correct Members of society.
What I’m about to tell you may come as a shock to some but, nonetheless, it needs to be said. Needs to be told and, I believe, the time is ripe.
Please, sit down.
I’m straight.
(gasp)
That’s right.
Straight.
I think I’ve known it since I was in kindergarten or the first grade.
That’s when I used to walk Marty Epp home from school. We’d hold hands as we walked across the back playground and crossed the street to her house.
Sometimes, I’d kiss her.
Marty was my first girlfriend.
GIRL…friend.
I have felt, for some time, that I needed to make this statement in order to live a full and open life. I was tired of hiding it and, in today’s society, well…I just wanted to get it out there.
But wait, there’s more…