Brent
That first year at the university was certainly full of milestones, events that changed my life in wonderful ways. I had my first full-time teaching appointment. After three years at Columbia, I was back in Ohio. I met lots of people and made new friends including, especially, Gabe. Although it was certainly lust at first sight when I met Gabe, I’m sure I had no inkling of what was going to happen between us.
It was about a week before the fall semester began. I was moving into my office as a new assistant professor of music history at the Conservatory of Music of a not-too-large university in Ohio. The Dean of the Conservatory had shown me the office when I was there in the spring, and her secretary had just reminded me of the room number, so I was walking down the hall, listening
