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"Everyone wants to meet you," Ryan says This fills Avery with another kind of anxiety

"Everyone?" he asks

"I may have told one or two or seven ofthe other night I had to keep them updated"

Avery starts the car and asks, "Where to?"

"Do you want to meet some of my friends?"

The answer is yes, and the answer is no The answer is that Avery wants to see more of Ryan’s life, for sure And the answer is that he likes it just being the two of them for now

"Maybe later?"

"Oh, definitely later I just need to knohether to put theot hours of us-time to spend before that"

Avery likes the sound of this But he still feels uneasy Not because Ryan’sis easy Unease is the natural state

Cooper is driving his car around to recharge his phone’s battery He wants to go back on the hunt, see if ht One last chance One last tioes back to the Starbucks and sits in a corner so no one can see the screen It’s just past noon on a Sunday, but the sex sites are full of people, full of conored while he was chatting with Anti He feels like he’s spent his life looking at these faces, even though he’s only had this app for a couple of e He’s blocked this guy at least ten ti ain You’re so cute You’re so hot I think we’d have a great tiot a shirtless photo even though he’s too old to have a shirtless photo

Before, Cooper’s just hit the block key This ti

Twinkhunter responds:

You into that?

And Cooper doesn’t care anymore Why the fk does he have to be polite to people like this?

You are nothing more than a desperate, pathetic pedophile

Within ten seconds, Twinkhunter’s blocked hioes on

He tells the guys ant " to uys who say "whites only" that they’re racist scu for "under 18s" that they are pedophiles

He tells the younger guys with naked pics that they should stop prostituting themselves

You’re pathetic, he writes

You’re desperate

Are you afraid to show your face? Is that why you show your dick?

Does your boyfriend know you do this?

I think there’s so with my screen I can’t tell if that’s your ass or your face

You’re looking for a good time? Do you really think you’ll find it here?

They all start blocking him Just like that, they disappear froht now, but Cooper feels that if he were, he’d easily find a way to get blocked there, too

There’s one guy, thirty-four, who says he’s long-ter-term do you think these relationships are? Two hours? Three? If you want to find a husband,for soet blocked in record tiuy, whose screen nary?

Cooper responds, I’ry I’m just truthful

TZ doesn’t buy it Who hurt you? he asks Do you need help?

Cooper blocks hiht away No way to undo it Gone

He takes down another Daddy looking for a Son, another Son looking for a Daddy, telling theuy froested they meet in a park He tells hiuy says he’s on his way, he blocks hi himself Because every time he’s blocked, a new face appears It’s like an endless source of desperate discontent (Yes, there are souys who look perfectly happy and have a sense of hunores them) Five miles away Fifteen miles away Thirty