Chapter 10
Jacksonville, FL
Sunday evening
JETHRO AND I HAD a fun time in the master bedroom; then we went back downstairs, out to the porch, and climbed into the hot tub. “This is great,” he said as he settled back down in the tub, “especially now that there’s so much room.”
“It is that.”
“I really liked your friends.”
“They’re a good group of guys,” I said.
“And they’re so… so….”
“Normal-acting?”
“Yeah, normal-acting.”
“Jethro, when you start school at the university, you’re going to find out very quickly that stereotypes exist because there is at least some truth to them. Gay men come in a wide variety of shapes, sizes, and patterns of behavior.”
“Yeah.”
“You’re going to have to learn to deal with them all of them, and every time you feel tempted to betray too much of yourse
