14 Serge By the time I parked in front of my building I was second guessing myself. I wanted to do the right thing by Joshua, and for me too. Hopping into bed with a stranger had always been the easy way to take care of my needs, but there was nothing easy about Joshua. He deserved more. When I got out of the car I hesitated. I’d left him in the coffee shop to put a little distance between us, emotionally and physically. I thought I needed the space, to figure out if what I was feeling was real or not. But maybe I was wrong to do that. So many years of isolating myself from other men, and from relationships and love had done a real number on my head. When I moved to Richmond, I’d made the conscious choice to allow myself to feel again, to embrace whatever life threw at me instead of loc

