This is a story which deals with same-sex love but also touches upon the love and forgiveness that exists within a family. It is not my intention to promote or condone any particular sexual expression or behavior, but rather to simply relate a story about love, admiration, and genuine friendship. A fourteen year old boy becomes sexually active in this story when he falls in love with another boy. No mention of AIDS or the HIV retrovirus is included in the story, and this is deliberate. The setting of the story is early 1980's and is very pointedly pre-AIDS.
It is my hope that the residents of Boyne City, Michigan, who read the story will find truth in the descriptions of this beautiful and quaint town and will understand some of the struggles and fears that a shy, inhibited, gay youth may face while growing up here. The central character of the story, Jeff Irwin, is not the author and never really existed. Many of my own feelings and experiences are included in the story of this fictitious boy, but his family and friends are all fabricated. Although the story is set in the very same northern Michigan town where I was raised, the people that I have implanted into this real-life town are not the people I knew as a young boy of fourteen.
This is completely a tale of fiction, and the characters within are not in any way intended to represent any real life persons. Although I'm not deluded enough to think that my first written work will be a literary masterpiece, I do hope that in some small way it touches the lives of some of the people who graciously choose to read it. My entire life it has been a dream of mine to share a story.
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