"Yes", say I, "I think you are right about Kenny. Like Cassandra his drag alter ego, he had a prophetic voice. He was certainly way ahead of his time about global warming. He even sat Dad and I down one Sunday after church in the morning to tell us all his fears and concerns, that the global mean temperature was rising way too fast and that within thirty years we would already be getting hit by catastrophic climate change. Dad merely indulged him, and this really infuriated me."
"Your dad didn´t take Kenny seriously, did he."
"Dad thought of Kenny as being damaged goods, and that was the way he saw him. He was such a kind man, so full of God's love, but in some ways so stubbornly blind about people. To him Kenny was a gay man with emotional problems and an ex drag queen sex worker who would never do well in life. He didn't seem capable of seeing the real person beyond the cloud of pity that tended to obstruct his vision."
"That is a very interesting way of putting it. Thank you. More chips?"
"Maybe a bit later."
"Oh, come on baby, you must you must..."
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