Coming Out and Getting Crushed
Losing my first girlfriend was devastating but also — eventually — empowering
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11 min readJun 6, 2019
The first thing I learned after Ally broke my heart was to never pour quinoa on a whiskey-soaked laptop. I had been drinking over Skype with my best friend — who was inconveniently a thousand miles away — to try to sort out what had just happened to me when I gestured wildly and…