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 but we can hope, right?<br />
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I think it was way back in 2013, at what felt like the beginning of my adult life. If it wasn&#039;t at one of those Block Club parties, it was at <a href="/articles/read/mike/" class="e_link" title="link to mike's journal #">(e:mike)</a>&#039;s birthday (<a href="/articles/read/joe/58048" class="e_link" title="link to joe's journal #58048">(e:joe,58048)</a>). I remember sitting around a fire in the backyard. I think <a href="/articles/read/robert/" class="e_link" title="link to robert's journal #">(e:robert)</a> had brought him not long after meeting Mickey himself.<br />
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The first photo I have is in our attic during that year&#039;s Halloween party.<br />
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It feels so impossibly long ago right now.<br />
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I remember meeting Jordan for the first time in the summer of 2021, when it finally felt like we could start leaving COVID behind.<br />
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I don&#039;t really have the words to say how I feel about all this right now. Anything I write feels wrong because nothing about this is right. <br />
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All I know it is I love and will miss them so much. They were a beating heart in the living being that is Allentown, Buffalo, our sprawling network of Rust Belt queers. I hope we can carry that light they shared. <br />
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