![]() Finding that perfect person with whom you know you want to spend the rest of your life is challenging under the best of circumstances. We met, became close friends, grew inseparable, fell deeply in love, and have been together ever since. Freshman year we were both rooming in the same dorm on separate floors. In addition to a well-rounded liberal arts education, I came away from my four years at Wesleyan University with the nickname “Hal,” and with Dan Waters. ![]() By the way, 1973 was same year that the American Psychiatric Association finally deduced that being gay was not a mental illness … something I could have told them if they had only bothered to ask. What I really wanted was impossible: a boyfriend. I graduated from the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School in 1973, never having or wanting a girlfriend. I am sure I hurt her feelings without ever being able to tell her why. Looking back, I feel particularly bad about one girl who had a serious crush on me, and whom I had to eventually “fend off” before it went too far. I attended our prom, the senior ball, and other social events with a girl on my arm because I loved to dance and socialize. Soon I was in high school, hormones and all, with little I could do to act on any romantic desires I may have had.
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