Gray Matters2006/I

Sam:
What are you doing?

Gray:
I want to die right now. I never want to see another human being as long as I live.

Sam:
You're just coming out.

Gray:
I am never coming out of this elevator.

Sam:
This is probably the biggest revelation of your entire life. It's normal to be going nuts. It's normal.

Gray:
I don't feel normal. I'm sick and tired of everyone saying it's normal, it's typical, it's ordinary. I don't feel any of those things.

Sam:
Well how do you feel?

Gray:
Lonely.

Sam:
Why?

Gray:
Because I'm never going to be able to walk down the street, holding hands with my partner without the rest of the world giving us a look. And me never have the wedding that I once dreamed of and I may never have children. And one day when I die people will never give as much respect to my grieving lover as if she were my husband.

Sam:
Gray, it's not as if you made a choice.

Gray:
That's what terrifies me. It's so much easier to be someone else.