#long-distance

#long-distance

I met Chris in the college bar in 1997. I was part of a group of visiting American students visiting the University of Oxford we kept ourselves to ourselves in the first few weeks of term and he leaned over from the next table to talk to me. I saw his one-dimpled smile and the cocky way he tipped his chair back on two legs and I thought: Uh-oh, here's trouble.

"It's not conventional. We live on opposite ends of the East Coast, but when you love someone, you make it work. I love my time with Sean in Palm Beach."