Their lovemaking the night that Darrin had discovered Brad’s identity was the most fulfilling Darrin had ever had in his life. Brad was free to be himself. He was tender and expressive in his physical declaration of how he felt about Darrin, the man who had stripped away the false persona and liberated the real Brad Grabosky, star football player for the New York Hounds, and gay man.
They made love for hours, alternated with tender times of conversation during which they shared their life journeys. Darrin skipped rehearsal that night, calling in to the theater to say he had been bitten by a bug of some sort. He knew exactly which bug it was, too—a love bug.
Darrin was deeply touched by Brad’s confessions of fear and depression. As Brad had come to understand his s****l orientation, he re
