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It’s the age-old fairy tale question — you’ve loved and lost. Is that better than to have never loved at all? In the new rules “Don’t Let Me Go” by J.H. Trumble , a young man finds out.
Nate Schaper never wanted to let Adam Jefferies go. He was in affection with Adam from the moment Adam had rushed over to Nate’s locker to succour another student who’d been bullied. Adam was like that: compassionate and smart, soft and caring — not to mention so beautiful that Nate could barely platform it. They were an “us” not long after that morning by the lockers and within weeks, they’d clear to come out together.
Adam was a senior then; a budding actor, a lover of the concoct and about to graduate. Nate was a junior and never wanted to let Adam go.
But the following summer, he had to do it: Houston and New York Diocese are some 1,600 miles apart and Adam had a once-in-a-lifetime chance to show up off-off-Broadway. Nate wasn’t about to hold him back.
Source: Washington Blade