All the way

“I feel like I can’t let myself love all the way,” Mau says casually over breakfast. 

 

“I like the love stories where they don’t end up together, like Casablanca. Where they love each other, but they can’t be together,” he says.

 

"I feel pretty cynical about love, actually,” he continues. "I'm always thinking when will I mention I’m bisexual, when will I tell them I have HIV? How will I bring it up and how will they take it?" he says, while I eat scrambled eggs and ham off his plate.

 

“It’s weird to me that you feel cynical about falling in love," I say.  "Because I’d swear that we are.”