Maybe that is why we got along so well? Anyway, we both loved to play poker. His motto was, 'If you can't dazzle them with diamonds, then baffle them with bullshit.' And he was good at it. Even if he had absolutely no idea of what he was talking about. Funny, easy to talk with, and love to debate. He is a middle aged black man dark as coal. I quickly made a best friend with my neighbor Melvin. When we first moved there everyone was really nice to us and made us feel welcome. Neighborhood picnics, hanging out, camping, all that. Everyone knows everyone, and we all get along very well. We live in a nice upscale middle class neighborhood. I had never in my life ever thought of being with another man in any form. We had been married for 18 years with an excellent sex life. I was an average, happily married white guy.
