............Humm, it started with Brian, should end with him, maybe he is not gay, but he is f**ked up enough with his feelings that he can be 'labeled' as what bi-curious, bi, or gay. It matters not in this story, the love portrayed extends beyond friendship. And has left lives ruined or damaged because of it, Brian answered the questions in the last chapter, his deep love..............
.............Seriously, you said all of that here!! Hummmm, 47 damn your old!! Yep half century is peaking at ya! Btw, we were promised those flying cars when I was ten to have happened in the year 2000, so there it didn't happen! So Mark, here is a cane for your further venture thru time!!
..........Go figure, to paraphrase a friend; about 90 people get swine flu and everybody starts wearing masks. One million people with AIDS and nobody wears a condom.
However, as a frog, you like water, so I would think that you'd be largely unconcerned about any trips to the bottom of the sea for Instinct, and thus would never imply that any water-related thing could ever be in any way a cliffhanger.
I knew the frog was at the bottom of this!!!!!!!!!! Humm, goats can't swim can they??