Alive

Zach is alive.  I guess he has to be about 25-years-old now.

Over 4 years ago, I spent almost a whole day with a handsome young man, only to find out he was suicidal.

But the other day, he hit up my faceless profile on Grindr.  He too had a faceless profile, but sent me a photos of himself in his first message.  Still handsome.   I felt so relieved and happy to find out he's still with us.

After what I put him through, I'm pretty sure he wouldn't really want to reconnect with me, so I didn't respond, but I really wanted to, just to say I'm happy to see his face.  I reached out to him a couple of times after the great gonorrhea incident of 2014, but I got radio silence in return.  I didn't know if it was because he had moved on, or because he might have attempted, or even succeeded in taking his own life.  Again.

I have never been so happy or relieved to find out that I was ghosted.

If you want to read how it all went down, start here:
http://onehookupatatime.blogspot.com/2014/05/dude-307-kid.html