I was with my long time lover of twenty-five years I heard from my younger brother, who had gone to school with Wayne’s younger brother that Wayne married into money right out of college, gotten fat, and had a brood of kids, all living over in New Jersey someplace. How different our lives might have been. Oh well. I have my memory, such as it is, of that afternoon with the most beautiful boy in the seventh grade on the back path the last day of High School. A moment in time when two young boys, so different, so full of life, found themselves in lust for each other. One, carrying that lust for men throughout life on into his sixties and happily still going strong. The other buried in the mundane life of the socially acceptable.

Oh, by the way, as for those jockey shorts I had tossed into the woods, two weeks later my mom asked me why I was missing a pair of underwear. How do mothers do that?

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ROBERT FUCCI

ROBNYBOY1@AOL.COM

Robert likes to be called Robbie. He lives in the Lower Hudson Valley, Westchester County, New York. He works in Manhattan in book services. Mr. Fucci has had poetry published, and his short story Christmas Topping was included in the anthology Hard Drive, published by Alyson Press. Mr. Fucci was formerly the Curator of Local History for the Westchester County Public Library System. His personal Library consists of one of the largest privately owned gay collections of signed first editions.