“Awesome. When’s he coming over? Can you take a picture and send it to me? Can you at least say hi for me?” “I have to work with him. No.” “Jay, please!” “I’ll have to think about it,” Jason said. “Maybe, if I’m in a really good mood, and you do the dishes for, like, the next ten years at every family dinner, I can ask him for an autograph. I’ll tell him to make it out to Allie the Brat.” “You’re the worst and I hate you.” “Hate and loathe you. No, seriously, Allie, he’s…I don’t know. I don’t want to ask him for a lot. Not now.” “Oh,” Allie said. “Is everything okay? Is he okay? Is it this film? I know he’s talked in interviews about how much he loves the book and how much this means, the historicizing and recognition of gay narratives and sexualities in the past. I bet it’s a lot of

