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“Do you know who I am? I don’t get to just be Scott from Rochester, all right? I’ve been a fucking commodity since I was a teenager. I’ve been a brand for almost as long. I don’t have the luxury of just being me. I can’t make decisions about my life independently. People depend on me!”

“Right. Don’t want your brand to suffer. Don’t want to tarnish it with your gayness.”

Scott’s fingers tapped lightly on Kip’s lower back, and Kip wondered if
Scott felt like he did: too full of feeling. Full of words he couldn’t quite
imagine saying out loud.

Scott said, “I want to go everywhere with you.”
And Kip could hear the sadness in the way Scott said it. He could hear the unspoken “But I can’t.”

But Kip would ignore it. Tonight, he would ignore it.