Tim Manley

It comes to me the way that ideas for drawings come to me.

Me and you swapping t-shirts, me and you holding hands, me and you like brothers.

And he said to me, Tim, I think you know, and I did know, and it felt so good, and he said, I think you know that I'm only attracted to women.

And that's how I was so sad in a way because I knew I just lost the thing that made me feel less alone.

But also my body felt so good because I'd learned how to take this stuff that was inside of me and I put it outside of me and in the process I'd transformed who I was on the outside and the inside.

And then that night I wrote on my hand, Ben, thank you for helping me become the person I wished I could be.

Thank you.