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ultimately, there was evidence of fourteen affairs, starting around the late 2000s, and who knows how many others besides. edward was number eleven. it turns out dad lived a strange, unseemly, lurid life that he hid from everyone who loved him: his parents and siblings, his family (us), and edward, too. one of my more caustic friends puts it in a way that makes me laugh: "all i can say is that it's extremely cool of you to have a dead, deadbeat gay dad." thanks, alice. am i being too callous? there's all this distance that he put between himself and his family, and it's with this increasing distance that i think about his life. i'm a stranger with a gender and sexualities minor peering into the case of a man who shares her cultural background, and the man is caught between his desires and the expectations of the regressive culture he has lived in his whole life. and then the stranger thinks, i am spending too many cycles thinking about what is basically my dad's sex life? should i thin

dissolution – Jenneral HQ 🌠 dissolution 23 Nov, 2025 ultimately, there was evidence of fourteen affairs, starting around the late 2000s, and who knows how many others besides. edward was number eleven. it turns out dad lived a strange, unseemly, lurid life that he hid from everyone who loved him: his parents and siblings, his family (us), and edward, too. one of my more caustic friends puts it in a way that makes me laugh: "all i can say is that it's extremely cool of you to have a dead, deadbeat gay dad." thanks, alice. am i being too callous? there's all this distance that he put between hi

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