Bill, a young gay man living in California, returns to Boston in the summer of 1987 to visit his old college roommate and briefly lover, David. He, David, and their buddy Lou drive to Provincetown for a week's gay vacation, where the old ties of friendship among them deepen. But their good time is threatened by increasingly volatile personalities and a growin AIDS epidemic encircling them in an ever tighter grasp.<br><br>Their emotions explode one evening with the unexpected arrival of George, whose added presence brings to a head the simmering anxieties, fears, and resentments these friends have long harbored but have not openly shared. Will their friendships fall apart? Or will they discover a deeper love that binds them together?

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“Oh, yeah,” David let out with a sigh. “As you now know, he still does it.”


“Being his Catholic, mafioso boyhood filtered through a miscreant adulthood loose in Queerdom. I think he must dream of nuns chasing him with Leviticus in one hand and a lubed-up electric cattle prod in the other.”


The coffee began to percolate in the old aluminum pot sitting on the old Hotpoint electric range.


“You don’t live with him. How do you know it happens all the time? Maybe it’s only here, in Provincetown. With you.”


It occurred to Bill that it might be David whom Lou dreams of.


David got two chipped cups and saucers, again making as much noise as he could, and set them on the counter. Standing by the brewing coffee, he continued to talk about Lou.


Chapter 12