Accept that, like many men, you have a streak of the homoerotic in you…

Michael Cunningham
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Accept that, like many men, you have a streak of the homoerotic in you. Why would you, why would anyone, want to be that straight? ✨ Michael Cunningham (2010). By Nightfall: A Novel, p.115, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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