On a Bridge by Steffan Triplett

Laura Pegram

December 1, 2017

For years I had been ashamed of my body’s response. I thought about Sunday school. A teacher telling us about his cousin who was diagnosed with AIDS. How God gave it to him, how he deserved it. About the signs those men held that said God hated men like me.

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