After a few years, Tom settled down in Manhattan with a younger man,
an ex San Francisco Bombers skater. After still more years, I found my
man, Stephen, and made my home in St. Louis. Yet Tom was always there,
only a phone call, only a heart beat away. We had been planning a trip
to Australia in 1990, Tom, Stephen and I, but we never made it, because
Tom's health failed.