SOULTIGHT

"Sunlight is the best disinfectant”

- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis

What's in the dark almost always comes to light.

there once was a boy who thought that all he had to do to seduce a particular girl was to be nice to her and buy her flowers and do her homework and to draw hearts with his name and hers in the center or to use his money earned from mowing lawns to buy her anything she may have hinted at wanting during the week and who never pressured her into doing anything she didn’t want to do and then the evening before he went to college they had both stop being virgins and two months later there was a rumour in the church that she was four months pregnant and when he confronted her she said he was the father, and even though he was the father, after he had gone off to college she had began dating his best friend and she and his best friend got married and he became a deacon in the church and she had the baby which her husband mistreated for seventeen years and the father nevertheless bonded with the child and found out that when the boy was eighteen he had kidney trouble and the doctor said he might need a kidney and the father volunteered his kidney and the doctor ran blood tests and nothing seemed to match and the father’s mother’s suspicions from eighteen years ago came to fruition and she asked her son to get a dna test to confirm the boy was his son after all, and sure enough the boy was not the son of the father who only had one sexual experience with the mother but the father of the boy ended up being his best friend who had mistreated the boy all his life because he thought the boy wasn’t his son, which suddenly didn't have a kidney problem anymore and the mother of the man who thought he was father said that God probably put these wheels in motion for her son to find out the truth and now the best friend- or should I say, ex best friend who is now divorced, has been trying to get his son to forgive and forget the eighteen years of mistreatment, but the boy  told the man whom he thought was his father all his life, that he didn't care what the dna tests revealed; that he has been and will always be,

 his father--