Kerry: ConflictsI said that Suze did not have a mean bone in her body and that that’s one of the things I loved—yes I use that word—about her. But sometimes I thought I had been premature in my assessment. I f****d up, okay. She came out to me and afterward I realized that she probably had not come out to anyone before and might not ever again. And what if she wanted me?
I, in that one, most important moment of my life, failed. I failed her and I failed myself. I am not an i***t and I knew there were plenty of gay people around. Hell, I had often met and had dinner with Mary and Betty, a lesbian couple with kids.
And yet.
I had “just met” them. They weren’t my friends. They weren’t my best friend. I wasn’t their best friend and I knew that that’s what I was to Suze. I reacted and I reac
