They both sat next to Mary on the opposite side of me. The Hospital Commander leaned over and asked me how I was doing and if my recovery was on sched...ule.I replied; “I have been told that the device (I had a device that was two stainless steel rings separated by threaded rods and secured to my leg by screws into the leg bones) on my leg should come off in one to three months, the doctors think that the bones will be fully healed and the rehab should take about two months to ten weeks from then.. “Don’t cover those delectable things on my account,” Chris laughs. I shoot him a withering look and turn my back on him, only to confront my 3 friends watching with amusement. “Think I’ll go for a walk,” I say as I start off down the trail to the bathhouse. As I leave I hear Chris’s deep chuckle along with snickers from the women I used to call my friends.I walk to a stream surrounded with trees and find a boulder to drop on. I immediately begin to think about the man I walked away from and the. “Those women are also Dan’s wives?” Jenny asked seeing him kissing them.“Yes they are and they consider me to be sort of his wife too,” Lisa replied, an arm going around the waist of her girls.Wendy let her maternity dress fall to the ground. “Wow, is she ever pregnant!” Hanna exclaimed of her naked body.“Yes she is, Wendy is having Dan and Karen’s baby and Tina is pregnant also with twins from Dan.”“How can he have two babies with two different women?” Hanna asked.“They went to a fertility. Nick, on the other hand, was a sleek muscular young man who seemed to be the antithesis of the typical gay stereotype. Neither one exactly shouted 'gay' by their appearance."OK, that answers a lot," Alex replied with a reassuring laugh. "I'd hardly presume to understand what you've had to go through in coming out, but there are parallels. We face potential persecution based solely on who we are, something we have no control over. Those that I trigger seem to be based on a completely random.