He was tall, skinny, tattood, shaved head, definitely had the hard look of someone who has been around the block a few times. He would come over and p...ay video games with me because I was one person he could hang with that didn't get high. I have this thing I learned from Seinfeld where people I trust I allow to walk in my home without knocking. I told him he could do this and although tentative at first, David would just walk in from time to time. One day I was very depressed as I often was.. She was a trans woman, that was clear to me too. Later, she’d tell me she didn’t like all the labels. “I’m just me,” she shrugged. I’d been shaking hands and when I held hers we seemed to hold for just a bit longer than was conventional. At least that how it felt to me. We were all making polite talk. I learnt Andrea was a writer herself, mostly magazine articles and a few short fictions. It was long before it was time to make our way to our seats. Andrea it seemed had arrived alone as I had,. Taai amar kache ontoto lukas na, thik ache amay bolis na…no problem…kintu ajj bikalei amra Dr. Ghos er kache jabo….uni ekjon naam kora monorog bisesoggo…okhane giye tor ekta counceling koriye niye asbo…dekhbi onek upokar pabi”“thik ache maa…ajj bikale to ami fakai achi….problem hobe na…ami jabo tomar sathe” Sedin bikale amra Dr. Ghos er kache gelam…uni amay onek kotha jiggasa korlen…..college sommondhe, bondhu der sommondhe…infact amar kono girl friend ache kina, ami kokhono sex korechi kina. Darius offered a silent thank you to Heather for allowing him to wear short heels for his first dance. Anything taller than two inches might've been catastrophic.Three spotlights activated and poured light onto Dana, Riley and Lexi. The song began as the rhythmic, almost military-style, drumming of Jefferson Airplane's White Rabbit flowed from the room's speakers and filled the hall. Darius placed his hands on his sides and rolled his shoulders and hips in time with the beat. Lexi and Riley.