Belonging. Togetherness. These words are as complicated and confusing as the word love. Itโs probably all the same thing. Or it would be if we let it be. I can only guess from observation.
David Levithani have never had anybody talk to me like this. this is not a flirty sixth-grade phone call or bantering with friends or words passed in a note. i feel that if my soul could talk it would talk like this.
David LevithanWe could call you an ambisexual. A duosexual. Aโโ โDo I really have to find a word for it?โ Kyle interrupts. โCanโt it just be what it is?โ โOf course,โ I say, even though in the bigger world Iโm not so sure. The world loves stupid labels. I wish we got to choose our own. We pause for a moment. I wonder if thatโs allโif he just needed to say the truth and have it heard. But then Kyle looks at me with unsure eyes and says, โYou see, I donโt know who Iโm supposed to be.โ โNobody does,โ I assure him.
David Levithanincessant adj. The doubts. You had to save me from my constant doubts. That deep-seeded feeling that I wasn't good enough for anything I was a fake at my job I wasn't your equal my friends would forget me if I moved away for a month. It wasn't as easy as hearing voices nobody was telling me this. It was just something I knew. Everyone else was playing along but I was sure that one day they would all stop.
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