Chapter 20: A Boyfriend’s History
October 15, 2015
What I learned about Carl Martini was nothing shocking or out of the ordinary. There were no secret relationships with younger men. He didn’t suffer from alcohol abuse or a bad temper. And nor did he sneak into Candy Girls and enjoy the company of gyrating females, lap dances, and other common events that a straight man might have enjoyed outside of a significant relationship. I had acknowledged that he wasn’t a liar, storyteller, or selfish. Carl was the perfect man, unblemished, and without any baggage.
Frankly, it startled me to think that he was dropped out of heaven and into my lap; an angel of sorts without any flaws. Wanting to learn of a blotch, I had decided to put him through a battery of questions, which he had surprisingly a
