You were in your junior year in high school. You’ve questioned your sexuality for years, you were quite certain you liked girls, but doubt lingered.

Daphne Martin was a loud and proud lesbian. She had good humor, a lively personality and she was very sarcastic.

You weren’t friends, I mean, you barely knew her.

Your parents were blatantly homophobic. It made it difficult to even be able to say out loud you were gay, if you even were.