First .... If You Knew What I Knew Now

This is a very interesting article. It starts off with two boys named Ryan and Ben, next door neighbors in the back of their station wagon coming home from dinner. Ryan expresses that he loves Ben, yet they are only five years old. What could a five year old possibly know about love. He then asks Ben to marry him and is overheard by his mother and she tells him that two boys can not get married. When Ryan is first expressing how he feels about Ben it isn't made clear that he is a boy, so the only thing that would be on your mind from that point up until it is made clear is the fact that he is a boy is the fact that they are only in kindergarten. After he is told by his mother that he cannot marry Ben, the story jumps to him being in sixth grade having to work on a social studies project with two boys named Mark and Jared. He goes to Marks house to work on the project and is tricked into leaving the room so that the boys could begin their plan. They pretend to kiss each other. Knowing that Ryan does like boys but is hiding it they do this to try to make him say it. Ryan carried that moment for a long time until he ran into Jared at their ten year class reunion. Jared began to apologize but Ryan cut him off saying that just by him remembering that night was enough.