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Peter Max Lawrence
San Francisco, California USA
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The setting was Kansas.
I thought it was alcohol poisoning, but it was not.
I had been jumped by some homophobic peers just three days before.
I had been let down by the non-reaction of my supposed friends.
I spent those next few days vomiting.
I was underage and scared to ask my parents for help.
my mom found me passed out in front of the toilet on her way to the night shift at the post office.
my father picked up my limp body.
I pleaded with my parents not to watch the morphine shot (in my ass).
The young doctor was handsome.
My appendix had been ruptured during the beating.
modern medicine saved my life.
for months afterwards i debated with my diabetic friend about whether people should not seek medical help in situations like this.
I was still mildly suicidal.
I was young and naive.
still am!
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