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When I was wee,
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and we'd be out in the car
and we'd pass a wedding,
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a church or outside a registry
office, my mum would, without fail,
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slow down, roll down
her window and shout out,
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"Don't do it, you mad fools!"
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In retrospect, I think she was
still processing her feelings about
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the divorce, but we just
thought it was funny.
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Every time! Really funny.
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Though not if you were a...
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... reluctant bride with acute hearing.
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Such incidents bred in me a suspicion,
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a certain uncertainty towards marriage.
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Towards men.
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Towards making promises
amid pomp and circumstance.
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Towards institutions and the done thing.
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What one ought and what one not.
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Oh, my scepticism is a rich inheritance.
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The family fortune
from my mother's side.
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But here I am...
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... which is why I
have to get this right.
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Which starts with getting THIS right.
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All those Jaffa Cakes inhaled for
inspiration can't have died in vain.
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Once upon a time, a plucky young man
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went on an adventure miles from home.
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In a magical kingdom in a far-away land,
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he met a handsome prince
who spent all his days
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bringing joy to the lives of others.
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One night, at a ball
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where all the beautiful people
in the kingdom had gathered,
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the handsome prince spoke to the
man who was minding his own business
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while desperately trying to get
served at a bar where, yet again,
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he had forgotten to take off
his cloak of invisibility.
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So kind was the prince that he
bought the plucky young man a drink.
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And so gracious was the man that
he asked the prince to dance.
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And the dance was so entrancing
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that everyone else in the room vanished.
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The world stopped spinning and
it was just the man and the prince
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in each other's arms
on top of the world...
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... with only Lady Gaga for company.
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Now THERE'S a threesome!
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Pause for applause, wild
applause, possibly some cheering.
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Obviously, if I fill in a few details,
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the magic of the story may pale,
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as magic often does when
you see its mechanics.
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The adventure was a
fortnight in Florida.
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The ball was a club playing Bad Romance.
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The plucky young man was...
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... youngish.
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And the prince wasn't a prince at all,
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but another plucky young man
on an adventure of his own.
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That his adventure was working on
a roller-coaster in a theme park
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gets bonus OMG points in my mind,
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but then I've always
loved roller-coasters.
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Real and emotional.
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Lest you hadn't noticed.
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Of course, this story isn't like
the fairy tales I was raised on.
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No horse-drawn pumpkins,
way too many homosexuals.
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I do have a story about
three bears, but NSFAJ.
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Not Suitable For Auntie Janice.
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Nor anybody else, mind you.
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No, people like me didn't feature
in the stories I was told growing up.
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Felt as if I didn't exist.
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Even if there were characters like me,
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they were Hall of Mirrors
distortions that made me feel like
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I didn't want to exist.
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I had a go at ending
my existence back then.
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But I was as good at
suicide as I was at physics,
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so I lived and learnt.
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It's painful to be invisible in
other people's stories, but there is
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a sliver of liberation.
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You can tell your own story.
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You can author your own life.
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There's no script to stick to...
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... which is fucking terrifying.
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And quite exciting.
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And fucking terrifying.
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Not that scripts can't be quite useful.
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For me and my people...
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Oh, my God! My people?
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For me and other gay people, we
now have the opportunity, the right,
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to have the fairy tale wedding
that others have always had.
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Even just for a day,
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we can be handsome princes
and/or/and beautiful princesses.
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Though inevitably,
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some of us will end up more Princess
Margaret than Kate Middleton.
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We, the gays, can now tell,
out loud and proud, our stories.
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And everyone... yes, even you,
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Auntie Becky, who told me I
was making my life difficult
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with my "choice"... to be gay...
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... has a better life because of it.
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Me having the right to get married
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doesn't take anything
away from anyone else.
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Rights aren't like cake.
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Me having some doesn't
mean you get less.
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And speaking of cake...
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Too wordy? Too wordy?
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Too twee? Too angry? Am I angry?
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Maybe I should start a fight.
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Set fire to something.
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Uncle Frank, perhaps.
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Bloody straights!
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Not only do they go around
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shoving their lifestyle
down everyone's throats,
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but they've also exhausted
every aspect of getting married,
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made every possible
choice, and to a cliché!
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And only now, when it's on its
last legs, do they wheel in the gays
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for a vital refresh after all this time.
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Hardly any time at all.
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Not just a big day, but monumental.
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Part of me wants the formality
and frivolity over and done with
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so life can get back to "normal".
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Another part of me wants to
live in perpetual anticipation...
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... in the thrall of
the imminent thrill.
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And another part of me wonders
if it's a good idea at all.
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Even in victory, you lose something.
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The feeling of...
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... being the rebel...
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... the subversive, the outlaw.
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I know! Never happy with what I've got.
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Until him.
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I personally have no reservations,
no nerves, no niggles,
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no last-minute jitters,
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no brief or lengthy reconsiders
for the love before this one,
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or for my first, or for
the one that got away,
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or the one that required an escape.
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Not even for my great
unrequited who might have...
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... if I'd asked.
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Nope.
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The answer to the proverbial
question when popped
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was never going to be no.
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It's at moments like this you
realise, despite your best efforts,
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you've still been indoctrinated
with old-fashioned, romantic,
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sentimental ideas of what
love is and how it plays out.
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I read it described once in a book
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as having fairy tales
stuck in your innards.
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Love is a sentimental tapeworm.
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Sometimes, I still can't
believe I'm having a wedding.
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Getting married's one
thing, but a wedding? Ha-ha!
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And a wedding of this size!
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A wedding we technically cannot afford.
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A wedding at which
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I'm already having an issue
with the table decorations.
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From Auntie Sheila.
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She normally buys them
half-price in the January sales
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for the following
Christmas. Only, this year,
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she decided my getting married
was a special enough occasion
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to get them out six months
early. A special enough occasion!
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And the fact that she's not sure
she'll be around come Christmas,
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her bowels...
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... being what they are.
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All I care about is they
don't pull focus today.
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The bowels, not the crackers.
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These crackers were only from Asda.
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But let's not get entangled
in Auntie Sheila's innards.
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Marriage... an
institution for the insane
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to which you commit
yourself voluntarily.
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For those that won't commit
or submit, those that can't,
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won't or don't fit...
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... there are other institutions.
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Asylums and prisons, say.
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In the end, we all find our place,
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or are put in it. The kitchen,
the bedroom, the attic, the cellar,
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the cemetery.
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I read The Handmaid's Tale at
school. It was very illuminating.
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I loved school!
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Well, I loved learning.
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Could have done without
the relentless bullying,
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having the shit kicked out
of me on a weekly basis.
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And kids I didn't even know
shouting across the playground at me,
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"Die of Aids, you fucking poofter!"
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Children... so adorable.
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You can't really blame them.
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Little pitchers. What gets
poured in gets poured out.
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And what got poured in then was
Section 28, Tory family values,
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the gay plague and EastBenders
on the front of The Sun
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because I was the danger, me!
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I never felt that, of course.
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I wish I'd felt dangerous.
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What I felt was anxious.
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Fearful, most of the time,
forever poised for fight or flight.
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Needing to read every room in an instant
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to assess the potential threats,
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who the alphas were, who to
avoid and who to make an ally.
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From that,
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the last one left
standing, unpicked at PE,
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the saddo sitting out the school
disco slow dances because he
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couldn't wrap his arms
round the one he wanted,
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the teenager looking for love
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in pissy public toilets
and parks after dark...
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... to this.
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Respectability.
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Propriety.
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Decorum.
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Perhaps everyone has their price...
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... and maybe mine is measured
in crockery and cookware
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on a John Lewis gift list.
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Or maybe it's measured
in love and loving,
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from spoonfuls to right big buckets.
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And what I learnt about love, first
and foremost, I learnt from Liza.
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Oh, my lovely mum, not Ms Minnelli.
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Although... terrific!
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There was this one time
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when I got really badly
beaten up by Grant Smiley
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at the swings and Mum went round
to his house like a pocket tornado.
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She ripped strips off Grant's mum
and scared the bejesus out of him.
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He steered well clear after that.
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Smiley's not so smiley then.
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Knights in shining armour
come in all shapes and sizes.
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Mine was five foot nothing
in her stocking soles.
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I remember Mum having to decide whether
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to buy a pint of milk or a loaf of bread
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because we couldn't afford both...
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... but I never remember having to
choose between love and laughter.
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We had both in abundance.
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Some shouting, too, admittedly.
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OK, a lot of shouting.
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Some screaming even,
maybe, occasionally.
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But mostly...
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... overwhelmingly, love.
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When I told her that
I'd met a man on holiday
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and he worked in a theme
park, she didn't bat an eyelid.
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When I brought him home, she
welcomed him with open arms
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and asked if, being an American,
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he liked the Dixie Chicks.
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And then she said it was typical
Steven to win a man at a funfair
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when most people make
do with a goldfish.
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But she's always been the
witty one in our family.
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Oh, which reminds me.
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Obviously, there's going
to be an Oscar Wilde quote.
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You can't have a gay wedding
without an Oscar Wilde quote.
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When I worked in a care
home when I was at college,
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there was an old blind
man I read to sometimes.
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He loved Oscar Wilde.
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He even said he'd seen him once.
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And that's how I know this quote.
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"All women become like their mothers.
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That is their tragedy.
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No man does.
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That's his."
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That's not my tragedy.
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For better or for worse, mostly better,
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I am totally turning into my mother.
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And I'm fine with that.
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Though I suspect she'll always
be the better line dancer.
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I could say, I suppose, that...
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... today isn't about
me, it's about her...
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... about seeing my lovely mum so happy.
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And that wouldn't entirely
be a lie, but come on!
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Let's face it!
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Today's all about me.
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Me and him.
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But mostly me.
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And him.
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Him!
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The man who, when we first
met, smelled of candy floss,
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soap and everything will be all right.
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Quite a heady combination.
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My someone to dance
round the kitchen with,
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my someone to take photographs of,
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someone to talk to all day
and spoon with all night.
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He loves my singing.
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OK, totally hates my singing.
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And he even likes my cooking.
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He laughs at my jokes
and he lets me cry.
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He encourages me to be kind.
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He makes me want to be a better man.
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And the best view ever isn't
Uluru, or Iguazu, the Taj Mahal,
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the Grand Canyon, or even Edinburgh
as seen from Arthur's Seat on
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a clear autumn day with the
Forth shimmering in the distance.
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It's the nape of his neck when
he's lying asleep in my arms.
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I know we don't get happily
ever afters in real life.
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I'm a hopeless romantic,
not a total fucking idiot.
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As my friend, Russell, said to me once,
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"Even with the happiest
couples, one of you dies first."
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But first...
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... there is such...
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... unalloyed joy.
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We went to the supermarket yesterday
and we were wandering around and,
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at one point, he took my hand, because
that's the kind of thing he does.
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And instantly, I got flustered.
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Residual anxiety.
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Remembrance of past battery.
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Enduring scars.
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Even though I know I'm hardly likely
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to get my head kicked
in by the salad bar,
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PDAs can still make me nervous.
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And then he said,
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gentle as anything, and I'm
not going to do the accent...
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"If there's a gay kid
in here with his folks,
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frightened that he's a freak,
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don't you think that
it might give him hope,
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seeing two guys wandering around,
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being themselves, getting their
groceries, like everyone else?"
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If happiness is a place...
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... it's the biscuit
aisle in Sainsbury's.
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And anywhere else I am with him.
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And when we met,
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I'll never forget what he
said when I introduced myself.
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"Pleased to meet you, Steve. I'm Adam."
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And then, "And if that's the case,
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we should probably get married.
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Adam and Steve has a certain
ring about it, don't you think?"
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Oh, and now it has got
a certain ring about it.
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He liked it and he put a ring...
Ooh, don't spoil it, Steven.
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This is the beginning of
a new chapter in my story...
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... our story, that continues tomorrow
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when we go back to where our tale began,
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and I get to meet Adam's extended
Orlando family which, funnily enough,
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does include a giant
and a couple of dwarves.
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We may even stop off
for a dance at the ball
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where the beautiful people are.
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Sadly, they don't do glass
slippers in my size, but then,
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when did I ever leave
a club before midnight?
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Ladies and gentlemen...
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... please raise your glasses to my...
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... husband, the love of my life, Adam.
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To our always and forever,
till death do us part...
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... as hopefully happily
ever after as it gets.
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I think it's better off the cuff.
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From the heart.
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Oh, you can really overthink
these things, can't you?
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