Hey, Faggot:
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Do not label me “bitter”–that’s too easy. What I need from you is an answer to a simple question. I know that not even Dan Savage can turn back time. I mean, if Cher can’t, you can’t–but I ask you, Dan, is there any way you can unsleep with someone? Is it possible to reverse the process? Is this nightmare so intrinsically a part of me now that no splash of Summer’s Eve can wash it away?
–Filthy in New York
Brain cells, unfortunately, are not regenerated, so you’ll be stuck with the memories forever. You could regard them as having been falsely implanted by an unethical therapist or, if that’s too passive, you could drink them away. Alcohol kills brain cells, and with a lot of cosmopolitans and a little luck you may kill the very cells that store the memories of this sorry affair. Be careful, however, that in your efforts to drink away your bad memories you don’t create new, equally regrettable ones.
When my fiance heard what my uncle said, he said that one of the main reasons he abandoned what he calls “the brown lifestyle” was all the envious old queens bitter at being denied the fulfillment only normal people can have.
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