Best friends since they were children, Mikhail and Solomon later took their friendship to the next level. But they have a falling out after a horrible mistake.<br><br>Seven years later, the men are reunited on a cruise ship in the Mediterranean where they both work as waiters. The animosity between them runs deep, but the close quarters at sea bring them back together, with a little help from a fellow shipmate.<br><br>Can Solomon and Mikhail move beyond the mistakes they made in the past and rekindle what they had? Or are they fated to only being friends?

Safe Harbor

Solomon went to bed that night and masturbated, thinking of Mikhail and all their good times and sexual episodes and how they stumbled into love the first time, and so many times after. They were the first for each other, each taking the virginity of the other at sixteen. When Solomon first admitted to himself he was gay, he wanted to kill himself and went to Mikhail to say goodbye, but Mikhail talked him out of it as well as any experienced rabbi. It was always hard for Solomon to forgive.


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