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Douglas Stuart Reads “Found Wanting”

The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

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I Was Lonely, I Was a Lonesome Boy

There was nothing seedy about these lonely hearts. These were not the explicit offers i would traw later in the free gay papers. The young men who replied to me came from all over the country. Some of their letters tried too hard to be funny and were caustic sounding, masking awful hurt. Yet here they were, sitting cross legged in bedrooms, reaching out to strangers same as me. I had been lonely for a long time. These boys were lonely too. This was why we were gathering here beneath the strait people glasgow lad m eventen,. black hair, green eyes, slim body likes the smiths, michel fifer, thomas hard

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