Are you gay?
No.
Hey. 'Cause if you are, it's okay. Just, like, be real.
I am being real.
What's real is... like, gay, straight, whatever, we're just monkeys, we're just fucking monkeys.
Yeah?
Yeah. Yeah, we're just animals. I mean, you know, we wanna be, like... superheroes and respectable fathers and pillars in our communities, whatever, but, but in fact, we're just monkeys... living in our own little monkey pods, driven by base instincts to create these hierarchies and hump each other. I thought I knew my father, you know? I only knew the part that he wanted me to see. He hid the monkey, and that screwed me up, Quinn.
You think that's what did it?
Yeah, definitely. Hey, I thought... My whole life, I thought I was the flawed child of an icon. Like, I put him on this, like, enormous pedestal. Meanwhile, like, he's off in some bathhouse on the DL, getting manhandled by some... like, random dudes. Wow. Oh, I wish I had known.
I'm sorry.
Yeah. But I get it. I mean, you know, you don't want your kid thinking you're some sex-crazed lunatic.
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