In the end, we go into our room together. The moment we’re finished, Eden’s cry comes through the baby monitor. Afterward, we sit on opposite sides of the couch, both our backs against the couch’s arms, our legs intermingling in the middle, and we draft our adoption announcement. We re-christen the spot where he used to lie alone when he’d stay home from work. After we’re both rock hard, he tosses a blanket in front of the fireplace. “I never want to be without you.” Sky kisses my mouth and throat, and soon he’s straddling my hips. “Without you, I don’t think I would have.” Walked the whole way down the fucking aisle and got spit on and went through hell.” “Ansley told me funds are pouring in like Evermore has never seen.” The whole works.” Sky grins, looking like a damn peacock that’s ready to strut. An ad campaign that focuses on the message that life gets better for these kids. Funding for transportation to our facility here. In the future, we’ll have a twenty-four-hour help line. Therapists who can help people around the country, for those who don’t need inpatient therapy or a place to stay…who just want to utilize our network of LGBTQ-friendly health providers. And I have someone assembling a database of people like that, so if it doesn’t, there’ll be other recs. “You think that person you linked him up with will help him?” “I’m going to call him once a week and talk. “Maybe we could go watch him play during a game this fall,” I suggest. Maybe one day when he’s older, Miller might even want to help out.Īfter Eden’s down, I find Sky in the living room. I could organize the art program for the kids who’re staying inpatient-either in transient housing, or in a special new inpatient mental health facility. I could do one-on-one mentoring with kids in the outpatient mental health clinic that we hope to house on the Evermore campus.

I think about the things he mentioned as I rock Eden to sleep in our room. In fact, I already have a couple of ideas.” I laugh, feeling like maybe it’s not a good idea, and he says, “Yes.

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