"The waters run deep underneath me, I'm waiting for him patiently. Confront my feelings every day, do I deserve you or am I just meant to drift away?" --- Chris always believed in love. He would go on and on about how amazing it is, how it is commonly experienced by everyone at least once in their lifetime, yet still remains a mystery. He would tell me that he loved me and mom more than anything else in the world, but he wanted to one day experience romantic attraction, the kind of romantic love that is portrayed in romance movies, but he was always holding something back. I could see it, in the way his eyes would linger on men when we were grocery shopping, in the way he would shift uncomfortably when asked if he had a girlfriend. He was gay, or at least preferred the male gender, a

