"I never said I didn't feel anything for Edna and I'm sure I wasn't trying to hide it either."
"That was pretty bold of you to say."
"What is?"
"That you're gay. A lot of people would like to keep theirs a secret and try to avoid conversations about it."
"Well, I'm not a lot of people, am I?"
"Yeah, you aren't but you do remind me of someone I once knew."
"Really huh, and who could that be?"
"A cousin of mine, a guy, he was killed recently."
"I'm sorry about that."
He heaved a sigh before he continued.
"Yeah, he was shot. Took three bullets to the chest. No one could have survived that anywhere. You know, I knew him since I was a kid. His parents both died when he was little and my parents took him in. And as an only child then, I was so psyched that I was finally going to have someone to play with. Little did I know that one day he was going to be reported dead."
