On Thursday May 17, 2007, my best friend surprised me. Wait, let me back up a little bit. In February 2005 I met my best friend and the man I am convinced, even to this day, is/was my soulmate, at an NA meeting. We weren’t friends at first. Later, he would confess that I scared him because I was openly gay. He wasn’t homophobic. He just wasn’t out of the closet; even to himself.
Once we started hanging out, we became inseparable. We either saw each other or spoke on the phone every single d