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Looking back on his time in Kent later, it seemed to Adam that all the three of them did was eat, drink, and talk.
He learned that Max and Tim were both from Ohio, Max from the Akron area and Tim from a little town on the Ohio River. That they had both gone to Kenyon, where they were best friends and might have been lovers if either had been willing to admit to the other he was gay. That they had somehow managed to lose track of each other after graduation. That Tim had been in grad school at Stanford while Max was in seminary in Berkeley, though neither knew the other was so close by. That Tim had been at Kent State a while before Max was assigned the job of associate rector and campus minister at the big Episcopal church in Kent. Even that Tim had had a lover when Max came to t
