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My god, that is beautiful. Thank you so much for posting that. I have fucked up so many times in my life and people have come back to me with love. I'm so lucky I have surrounded myself with loving people.
That's what being left wing is about by the way - of having the courage to find your own way and to make your life yours against the prevailing winds. (It can be what being right wing is about too, for what it's worth.)
I usually don't read these sorts of things, but that was both interesting and courageous.
I told him sometimes we get to see what we’re made of, that sometimes life hands us an incredible gift, the gift of seeing if we just talk the talk or if we truly walk the walk.