It’s the beginning of November and Fabian is looking to make plans to visit his family with his lawyer boyfriend, Michael, for Thanksgiving week. But when Fabian shows up at Michael’s office during the workday, Michael is rude and unreceptive to the idea, so Fabian breaks up with him.<br><br>Making the trip to San Jose by himself, Fabian is welcomed home by his loving Italian family who are just eager for him to come home for good. Fabian is set to make the best of Thanksgiving, single and all, but maybe a special visit will help to make his heart thankful once more.

A Thankful Heart

I began to wonder if maybe Michael was honestly grateful to be rid of me. Maybe he’d regretted inviting me to move in with him. He was a pretty smart guy who made a decent living and was rather ridiculously good-looking. He could have any guy out there in the world. Why would he want skinny, scrawny, down-on-his-luck, out-of-work-actor me?


That of course had been the beginning of November, and Thanksgiving was the twenty-eighth this year. Pretty late in the month.


By the time the Tuesday before rolled around, there still had been nary a peep out of Michael. That spoke volumes to me.


Good riddance to bad rubbish, is what Michael must have thought.


I had spent those weeks packing my stuff so that when I returned from visiting my family, I could move out of my apartment and into Mary’s rented room. Some of it was just going to have to go to storage as I had an old couch and a dining room table that weren’t going to fit in a single room.


Chapter 3