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That moment when u find out one if the biggest "things " that u share with someone...something that u think is only u and me...and u find out it isn't. U find out yet again there she is...right in the middle of your own thing.... yet again. Smh....fucking sucks
I mean who could win against that amazing strategy???
wink~
Sometime you just gotta laugh at yourself 😏
Juan Gabriel Vásquez, The Sound of Things Falling (via wordsnquotes)
all it takes is one homophobe with a gun. just one. in a gay bar opened in honour of the owner’s brother who died from aids, named specifically for his heartbeat as a place that was intended to keep his spirit alive. shooter saw two men kissing in front of his wife and kid and got “very angry”. 50 people dead, 53 in the hospital, because one guy who owned a gun saw two guys kiss and got mad
This is my friend Drew, on the right in the top pic and in the yellow pants in the bottom (back in my ~days as a twink~ 7 years ago). His boyfriend Juan is the other guy in the top pic, I’m just hearing that Juan died in surgery.
Drew’s still missing. I hope he’s okay but it’s hard to be optimistic now. I can’t lie and say we were close, we just hung out a couple times in our group of friends and have been Facebook friends since. I’ve lost touch with most Orlando friends from college. if he’s indeed gone I wish I had gotten to know him more than I did - he was super smart and kind and so comfortable in his own skin. He had so many friends. There’s probably a thousand people thinking of him now.
Most people probably won’t remember him. I don’t really remember the names and faces of other shooting victims, but the names and faces of the shooters are seared into my memory. It’ll probably be the same thing here for most people.
But I’ll always remember Drew. I hope he’s okay. Keep him in your thoughts please.
Rest in peace Drew Leinonen (1984-2016). I wish I’d known you better, friend. Kind of bummed that I posted about Donald Trump and it’s getting hundreds of notes compared to this - I dunno how tacky it is to ask for reblogs, but if you could pass this post around, I’d really like people to see it so they can put faces to this nightmare.
I would put myself through any amount of pain to help make u better... I love you more than the pain. It's always worth it as long as I know i went through it for something better to come of it.. a better u, a better us, just as long as it's worth something. That how true love works
Beau Taplin (via quotethat)
