Real life

Real life is better than any soap opera. Ran into an acquintance this evening. We've met four or five times over the past year. Good guy. And he shared a lot with me when we first met. Guess it's because it's sometimes easier to talk to a stranger, than to somebody close to you. Turns out he's been married for 25 years. Happily I might add. And has a son that's adopted. The son is black. He and his wife are not.

The family lives outside of Z, in a village. Country people are not always accepting as such. So they had to deal with the issue of having an adopted son. One of a different colour at that.

Imagine the commotion it caused when it turned out that the son is gay! Apparently the parents love him to bits, but it took some time for them to understand that he was of a different sexual orientation. They have now, but the "problem" is still that the neighbours do not want to accept it.

Imagine that in the year of 2006! Guess there are still smallminded people around.