ChromedOutCortex (He/Him) 🏳️‍🌈 🇨🇦 🍁

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Besides being a side, I'm just an average man with an average life. 🏳️‍🌈 🇨🇦 🍁 DMs are disabled - sorry! Linktr.ee/ChromedOutCortex Read my LGBTQ stories on https://gayauthors.org/author/chromedoutcortex/

You (and by extension, Adrian) have paced this beautifully, @ChromedOutCortex. You've allowed the relationship to deepen gradually within a routine of casual camaradeship to the point where Liam began to feel comfortable in accepting that he enjoyed Adrian's presence in his life and that this enjoyment of his company neither threatened nor betrayed his memories of his life with Kevin. And then that beautiful, sensitive conversation with Rod and Sean allowed Liam to consciously admit this to himself and to recognize that he was holding back not because of the age difference, but because he feared inadvertently putting Adrian through the same suffering he himself had suffered, watching impotently as Kevin lost his battle for life. You could just feel the trepidation slipping and ceding its place in Liam's heart to a hopeful optimism. Beautifully done! You've struck the perfect balance. I am really looking forward to the rest of this wonderful tale, and I thank you for it.
English translation of a poem by Faiz Ahmed Faiz called Gulon Mein Rang Bhare. The gardens are filled with color—the spring breeze walks on. Come, walk with me, so the garden’s work may go on. O friends, the cage is desolate—say something to the morning wind! Somewhere, let God’s ocean today carry the beloved’s name. Let dawn, just once, begin from the corner of your lips. Let night, just once, flow from your fragrant, tousled hair. Great is the bond of sorrow—this strange heart is true. They will come, drawn by your name—consolers will walk through. What’s passed over me has passed—but O night of separation, Let my tears, in the end, prepare your path. Before the beloved’s presence, the records of madness are sought— With every thread of the tunic torn, let truth be taught. O Faiz, no true resting place exists upon the way— If you leave the alley of the Beloved, you walk toward the gallows.
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