Chapter 11
Are Dayton and Block lovers? Boyfriends? f**k buddies? Or, are they simply friends with benefits? If so, I am not privy to this information. Neither share such facts with me. I take a day off from my college classes and follow the two men. They have ice cream at Rossenburg’s Ice Cream Shoppe. They run bases at Templeton Field, exercising without shirts on. They take in an afternoon matinee and view Black Swan at the Musictime Theatre. They share an early dinner at Titan’s, a sports bar on Marlin Street in downtown Templeton. They share a walk along the lake at Presque Isle State Park. Sitting on the sand at Sontimore Beach, they lean against each other as the sun falls, and enjoy twilight with its luscious hues of summer tenderness.
I follow them for the next week and study th
