We'll look over the fact that my night out with Grant and Luis wasn't that great the other night.
We got the party started in Grant's truck before going into the bar by drinking rum and coke. Luis played bartender and gave us half a glass of rum and the other half of coke. It was pretty strong. Luis got so drunk because Grant kept buying him drinks he ended up throwing up on the floor of the bar and we got kicked out. So embarrassing.
I got Grant's story the other night when we were chatting at the bar.
He is gay. He went to BYU after high school like any good Mormon boy, but he soon met someone, fell in love, and they were gay. Friends from high school who were also at BYU were quick to alert administration of Grant's sins. He was then kicked out of the school and expelled from the church. His parents basically disowned him. He was about $40k in debt leaving BYU. He is back in the area working cleanup for the city trying to save up money to pay off all of his credit cards and student loan debts. He is way in over his head and is going back to school part time at the community college right now. He isn't bitter about it. He is confident things will get better. That's pretty amazing to me.
Oh, and the friends he refers to were all the Mormon kids I knew from high school.
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"Friends" should be used lightly here, I think. That's a pretty awful thing to have done to you. :(
There are some parts of drinking that I will never understand.
Grant's story breaks my heart. I can't imagine how anyone, friend or family, could do that to someone.
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