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In 1981 Kansas, eight-year-olds Neil McCormick and Brian Lackey are sexually abused by their baseball coach. Neil, whose homosexuality manifested at an early age interprets the coach's abuse as an ...

In 1981 Kansas, eight-year-olds Neil McCormick and Brian Lackey are sexually abused by their baseball coach. Neil, whose homosexuality manifested at an early age interprets the coach's abuse as an initiation into sexuality. He becomes sexually compulsive, particularly attracted to middle-aged men. Eventually, Neil drifts into petty crime and becomes a prostitute. Brian reacts to the abuse by developing psychogenic amnesia and forgetting the events, for many years suffering from violent nose bleeds. In his teen years, Brian becomes a quiet, withdrawn, nearly asexual nerd. Strange, unsettling memories in recurring dreams lead Brian to suspect that he and another boy may have been abducted by aliens. While trying to untangle his confused memories at 19 years of age, Brian sees a photo of his childhood baseball team, recognizing a young Neil as the boy from his own bizarre dreams. Eventually, the two young men meet for the first time in over a decade, uncovering the secrets they share as well as beginning to heal one another.

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