Summary

"Jacob’s Journals – Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?": Jacob writes of his excitement at finally meeting his handsome father, who met him at the airport after flying from Cairo, and who spent 45 minutes with him – the longest, Jacob writes, the two of them would ever spend together. Jacob describes feeling uncomfortable in the luxurious bed in which he slept (commenting that he never got used to nice beds, even when he was with Doc) and being taken to church the next day, where his contemplative gazing at a beautiful altar boy was interrupted by his congregation-approved baptism. Shortly afterwards, he writes, he was taken to his boarding school, left there by his father who was busy with a new job in his wealthy family’s business.

"River": “AIDS was a river with no bed that ran soundlessly and inexorably through my life...