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Saeed Jones

This person is a poet and writer who struggles with the biases against black and gay people.

Carol Jean, Saeed Jones's Mother

This person is a single parent who struggles to make ends meet, suffers from a serious heart condition, and practices Buddhism.

Saeed's Grandmother

This person is deeply religious and is unhappy with a relative, and main figure's, homosexuality.

Uncle Albert

This person is helpful to a main figure when the main figure's parent is gravely ill, and this person helps the main figure manage the funeral planning of the parent.

The Botanist

This person says terribly ugly, racist, and disturbing things to a main figure in the context of several casual sexual encounters.

Cody

This young person is one of the first people to bully and ridicule a main figure for that figure's homosexuality.

Daniel

This person badly beats a main figure after the main...

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