"She was forcing herself to be cool, pretending to be unaffected by her friend's recent coming out to her. But she wished he hadn't said a thing, not yet, not when they were still at school. It had made them closer, of course, more intimate, but the fact of his homosexuality seemed to dominate their conversation, their time together. Even when they weren't talking about it, the subject seemed to be all around them, raw, present, uncomfortable."
- The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas
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