Well...I suppose my inclination will still be to see things through the figurative rose-colored glasses, at this point. I've seen one of those strange occasions that this place seems to render on the populace, yet I've not been wholly inconvenienced by it. ...Yet.

[After all, their date as youths was fun and refreshing, wasn't it? And being surrounded by children...

No, that's hardly an inconvenience at all, now, is it.]

...D'you know I met a man who told me, quite enthusiastically, about his boyfriend? No qualms in the slightest. It was...pleasantly startling. To think, that someone here would be so free with something like that, and suffer nary a single repercussion.

I think it's a fresh start. A...rare chance. Certainly not one I'd want to squander, having lived the alternative for too long.