The Winning Ticket
It all started in the blistering summer of 1980, a decade of neon windbreakers, cassette tapes, and, for Julian and his boyfriend Leo, a shared apartment that smelled permanently of cheap hair gel and instant coffee. They were both nineteen, skinny, and hopelessly broke—the definition of two neighborhood twinks trying to survive the Philadelphia heatwave. To escape their sweltering living room, they practically lived at the local zoo, using the free afternoon hours to wan