When the kitchen was cleaned up, we left for Holy Trinity.
We stayed longer than I had expected. The band wasn’t as loud as I’d feared, and some of what they played sounded more or less like music.
I saw quite a few of the kids who’d been helpers at our Art Camp the previous summer. Even Louis and Judd were there. They sat and talked with us for a half hour between visiting with their friends. They even danced together occasionally! And they weren’t the only same-s*x couple. I estimated there might have been a hundred people there, including the kids and the grown-ups, and there were seven same-s*x couples, three male and four female. If anyone was surprised that Stuart and I were there together, no one said anything.
Stuart, I discovered, though it didn’t surprise me, was a very popula
