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This year's anniversary is not so hard  [message #75231] Sun, 25 November 2018 00:10 Go to previous message
timmy

Has no life at all
Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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I think no-one here can fail to know that I have struggled with love, then adoration, then obsession over a boy I last met in 1970. Today in the UK it is now 25 November. It is his birthday. He is 67, nine months older than I am.

I know it is my responsibility, not his, that I fell into obsession, and has been my responsibility to come through to the other side. I have let it hurt me all my life since I was 13, even chosen to hurt myself with it. Of all the boys I fantasised over, he is the one I felt loyal to, in a bizarre manner.

http://forum.iomfats.org/?t=getfile&id=4945&private=0

He is not, today, the man the boy promised to become, but I am not, today, the man the boy promised to become either. I doubt, today, that we were even real friends. I was a puppy, scurrying round his feet hoping for some small attention. How ironic that all I ever wanted was to be his friend. I did not exhibit friendship. I exhibited need. Neediness is not an attractive trait.

Some years I have spent this date in tears and stress. "Why... If only..." and more. Well, I am why, and I created If Only.

So, John, whatever life we have left, I wish you well.



Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
 
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