Good Lord! I’ve just noticed that I’ve inflicted over 200 posts on you. Thanks for being so tolerant, here’s the continued tale. I won’t dwell on the non-event that was my 15th birthday, that’s part of a broader story. The next event of note was the choral course, another week at the sanctuary that was [...]
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OK, I’ve calmed down after that rather unpleasant story the other day so let’s get back to lighter things. The next morning I decided that doing something normal for a 14 year old on holiday would make a nice change so I announced that I’d be spending a few hours on the beach. After presenting [...]
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So everything was sorted out wasn’t it? Back with the right girlfriend, forgiven and suitably penitent and everything in the proverbial garden was lovely. Well you’ve probably realised by now that my teenage years didn’t run on very smooth rails so complications were inevitable. I went on a short holiday with my parents, not my [...]
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Mum’s customary gentle shaking brought unpleasant reality back into my world, after breakfast there would be the thorny issue of a letter to be written. Who’d have thought that I’d ever be in the situation of writing what amounted to a ‘Dear Jane’ letter? Well not me that’s for sure. Fed and dressed, no reason [...]
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You’ll no doubt be relieved to learn that this particular tale of two besotted teens is almost finished although the romance and the complications surrounding it have a while to go yet. There’s not a great deal to add to the afternoon’s activities, much holding hands, gazing into each other’s eyes and kissing took place [...]
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Cause and effect is a strange thing isn’t it? Farting in class, particularly when amplified by a wooden chair, causes giggles and an angry teacher. Losing your shorts in a rugby tackle leaves 30-odd boys helpless with laughter and a games master trying not to smirk, especially if you’re not wearing underpants. Saying “I love [...]
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Besotted adolescent alert! I don’t invent stories about my life, I really couldn’t make these things up, I just try to tell you the bizarre things that happened to a young boy the way they happened… Still hand in hand we entered the tea shop and were shown to a corner table, away from the [...]
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You may be wondering why someone who accepted his homosexuality at the age of 12 is making such a song and dance about his relationships with girls. Please bear with me and everything will become clear eventually. Wednesday morning arrived and after a hurried breakfast I had the longest bath of my life followed by [...]
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This is turning into quite a saga isn’t it? Well it was a saga and a very confusing time during which I learned a lot about myself. On the bad side I learned that I was quite willing to hide my sexuality behind a girlfriend but on the good side I discovered that I was [...]
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Two days later at breakfast Mum handed me a letter and sat opposite me expectantly. While she’d never be so crass as to demand a look she expected me to open all letters in front of her rather than hide in my room. The letter clearly wasn’t from any of our relatives because it was [...]
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