Now @purplekow, I'm sad for me that I don't see him anymore and that he hasn't responded to a text I sent him on his birthday (I hope it's just that he has changed his phone number since he now lives full time outside Texas on the eastern seaboard). But I hope I don't think he is miserable.
And bringing him up now has made me a bit melancholic because I just realized that this was the exact month that I first met him in 2012. I met him at the Texas Bear Round-Up (TBRU), and that convention is going on right now. I had actually first seen the boy at Starbucks where he was a baristo. I was fairly new to the hook-up apps at that point. And the Starbucks where he worked was where I went for several coffee meeting-ups. As far as I remember, nothing ever progressed further than the coffee. But I did notice a cute baristo there (my future friend). I thought he was straight at the time. Then a few weeks later I saw him drunk in his tighty-whiteys at the TBRU-he and entered the underwear contest and had needed to the alcohol for Dutch Courage. He sat on my lap for awhile before he went to his room with his then current Daddy-Boyfriend. After the TBRU was over, I went to the Starbucks and re-introduced myself as I thought with him being drunk there was a good chance he wouldn't remember me. Several months later I lost my career. He and a few of his Starbucks friends were one of the few lights in my life before I moved back to Tacoma in December of 2012.
Gman