![]() There are a lot of pleasant surprises inside “Things We Couldn’t Say.”įrom the start, author Jay coles gives his main character a great support system, and that’s an uniquely good thing. She said she had “reasons” for abandoning him all those years ago, and her truth was not what he’d imagined… He knew pretty much everybody in his Indianapolis neighborhood.Īnd the guy who moved across the street, a fellow b-baller named David, was becoming a good friend. A very good friend.īut just as their relationship was beginning, the unthinkable happened: Gio’s birth mother reached out, emailed him, wanted to meet with him, and he was torn. It was nice to have distractions from his thoughts. There was just no time for the first woman who broke his heart. The woman who walked out on the family when Gio was a little kid didn’t deserve his consideration at all. ![]() So no, he didn’t want to think about his birth mother. ![]() As for his romantic life, there wasn’t much to report: Gio dated girls and he’d dated guys and he was kinda feeling like he liked guys more. ![]() He had classes to study for, two best friends he wanted to hang out with, a little brother who was his reason to get up in the morning, and a father who was always pushing for help at the church he ran. Gio was an important part of the basketball team at Ben Davis High School in fact, when he thought about college, he hoped for a basketball scholarship. It wasn’t as though she was the only thing he had to think about. ![]()
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