The Double Entendre
Boxes. Having to live a life in one is a personal dilemma. Having others exclude you from their world because you don't fit in theirs is yet another. That latter realm is not something I had even considered as I first started to explore who I was. To me, there was a great sense of freedom in being able to finally accept who I am and to begin to come to break down the barriers of my own personal box which I had confined myself to live my life within. My own box was the life I created and lived for others. When you looked at my box, you saw a person who seemed, at first appearance visually, to be a man, but always had a little something odd about him that one couldn't put their finger on. Women found me to be a sensitive person and not like other men they had come to know. Gay males saw something in me that suggested I might be a potential catch, but alas, I am not interested in men in that way. Women tended, for the most part, to li...