The line between friendship and love can sometimes become blurred. Sal, Major, and Abby have a complex relationship. When Major and Abby call off their engagement and Major announces he’s leaving the country, Sal is devastated and wonders if he’s to blame.<br><br>Five years later, Major returns in time to find Sal obsessed with tracking down a stranger he flirted with at a stoplight. Wanting nothing more than for his friend to find true love, Major agrees to help in the search. The two enlist Abby, as well.<br><br>Somewhere along the line, the trio becomes a quartet, old feelings resurface, old wounds are healed, and everyone learns where love really is.

Red Light, Green Eyes, True Blue

“Well, trust me. That’s what it said,” he told me. “So, I decided not to decide right away. Long story short, I am gay. I didn’t need to decide, of course.” He played a silent melody on the vertical slats behind him now, moving his fingers to notes and rests only in his head. It was safer than tending to plants, considering where his emotions were. “As if getting married isn’t a big change. Jesus.” Suddenly, Major was on the move. “I almost got married! I frigging made this huge stupid scene in front of Abby’s family and all of our friends…” He stopped near the ramp at one end of the building. “I just needed to face it.” He wasn’t facing me. “No matter how part of The Supreme Court was going to feel, or the conservative candidate running for the senate in our state, or even Abby or you, I needed to say to myself ‘being gay and marrying a woman are probably a little incongruent…unless we’re lesbians. Which we’re not, neither Abby nor I.’”


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