Chapter 9
Due to a chance meeting on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, in a setting that left little doubt—a gay bar, naturally—as to their respective sexual identities, they’d admitted the truth to each other. After that, they began to meet more often and had finally come up with a plan that would get her family off her back, so to speak. They pretended to, and actually did, date each other, dragging the process out for a couple of years before finally announcing that they were going to marry. Philip wasn’t at that point, out to his family, although he’d never attempted to hide his sexuality from them, so it was easy for him to maintain his part of the charade.