Garner working as a waiter at an upscale restaurant with a growing attraction to a man named Alonzo, who always asks to be put in his section for dinner. One night after work, the man is assaulted while trailing Garner. Garner goes to his aid, but is shot for his trouble.<br><br>Taking time off from work to recover, Garner is resting on a park bench when Alonzo suddenly appears at the other end of the bench. Garner never saw him approach. He asks why Alonzo is trailing him.<br><br>After some hesitation, Alonzo explains he wants to recruit Garner to help fight against others who systematically hunt people like himself. Garner isn’t inclined to get involved in anything dangerous, but he does finds Alonzo more and more attractive, so he agrees to consider the idea. As he learns more about Alonzo’s bizarre and dangerous subculture, what Garner really wants to know is whether Alonzo is romantically interested in him at all.

Call to Love

And then had come puberty and high school, fresh concerns for the growing youth, and finally a true escape, to college in the city.


He had never looked back. The city, his few friends, and his apartment, it was comfortable, and that was all he asked of life.


It had been a theory of his late adolescence that the feeling of pull toward his uncle had been a pre-pubescent manifestation of his same-sex attraction. For his uncle had been virile and good looking in his own way.


But now, now that his aunt had said that—about both having something brightabout them—it brought out another possibility.


What if his uncle had been a Sensitive, too?


The idea was intoxicating. Andit promised relief from that old guilt. The mere possibility had the effect of easing his mind, and so it was that he sank into sleep at last.18: Family History


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