Coming Out and The Women I Loved

PEI as seen by https://www.flickr.com/photos/neesam/28415147744

Bea was my first serious relationship. We were madly in love — me all 6’ 250 lbs of hairy white guy, and she, 5’ 100lbs of Black Caribbean heritage. We were a study in contrasts and similarities, two technicolor liberal arts(ish) majors in a bland, grey engineering school. She was attracted to me because of my sense of humor and latent homosexuality. I was attracted to her because of her intellect, her sweetness, and her…