There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ours…

Charles Dickens
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There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and a skeleton truth that we never did. To the best of my belief, our case was in the last respect a rather common one. ✨ Charles Dickens (1983). Great Expectations
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There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and a skeleton truth that we never did. To the best of my belief, our case was in the last respect a rather common one. ✨ Charles Dickens (1983). Great Expectations

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