Chapter 5Well, here it was, the absolute best birthday present I’d ever been given: in less than an hour, Theo would be making an honest man of me. I stood before the mirror in the bathroom of our hotel suite on the northern shore of Long Island and fastened my bowtie.
Or tried to fasten it. I suddenly seemed to have become all thumbs.
“Here, son. Let me give you a hand with that.”
“Thanks, Dad. I don’t know why I’ve become such a wreck.”
“It’s a big step.”
“Yeah, but I’ve been living with Theo for over a year.” I couldn’t tell Dad it was almost from the day I’d met him. “Were you nauseous when you married Jill?”
“No.” He smiled and gave the bow of the tie a final tug. “But I can’t say the same when I married your mother. Of course I was a good deal younger then.”
“Do you…do you thi
