It's Woodstock, 1969, and Laramie Pruitt is anxious to feel some peace and love after the recent Stonewall riots in his hometown. While he's grooving to some great music at the festival, Laramie meets a handsome young man named Sullivan “Sully” Conyers. They get along well together, and Sully even tolerates Laramie's tendency to get on his soapbox about social issues and Big Brother. When Laramie learns that Sully is gay, it leads to a tryst later that night and clandestine kisses under Sully's tarp during a rainstorm. Things are great, but as always, Laramie's mouth gets him into trouble, and drives Sully away. Laramie knows he was wrong, but in a sea of half a million people, how is he supposed to find Sully and apologize? Thankfully, Laramie finds Sully on the last day of the event and he gets a second chance at love.

Woodstock Gave Me You

Belatedly, I noticed the clouds getting darker, but I was too lost in my thoughts to take a hint of what was probably going to be a monster rainstorm.


Why had I acted like that with Sully? Hell, why do I alwaysdo that? It was as if I had no control over my mouth. I had learned to keep my opinions to myself growing up out of sheer self-preservation. So when I moved to New York, it was as if the dam had broken, and all my pent-up frustration and opinions and what-have-you came pouring out.


Apparently, they still were. I knew Sully had only been trying to lighten the mood, and it wasn’t as if his view wasn’t valid. God, I could be so full of it, sometimes. It was a complaint my roommate had had with me almost daily while I lived with him. Maybe I needed someone laid-back like Sully to remind me not to take life so seriously.


Chapter 10