'Frankie believed in Heaven quite literally, as if it was another
lovely world out past the stars. And when he spoke the word "love",
it seemed to spring free and fly into the air like a beautiful
balloon you wanted to run after. But I couldn't tell my parents
about Frankie, not properly. I told them I'd made friends with the
boy in the room next to mine, and how he'd come from this little
town out west. I couldn't tell them how he was becoming the best
thing in my world. I couldn't tell anyone, I hardly admitted it to
myself.' In the 1950s, 'entering' the seminary was for ever, and
young boys were gathered into the priesthood before they were old
enough to know what they would lose. Tom went to St Finbar's
because he was looking for something more than the ordinary
happiness of his home and school. But then he discovered that being
able to love another person was the most important thing of all.
For Tom, loving Frankie made him part of the world. Even when
Frankie was gone...
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