Awesome story. I can relate to the separate beds portion. I wasn’t out to my parents, but I took my then-boyfriend home to Utah for Christmas and we slept in different rooms. Christmas Eve morning I went into the room he was staying in, my old bedroom, to discuss our plans for the day. He was still in bed under the…

Circa 1995, we had an Isuzu Trooper II with 2.3 4 with the self-destruct head. I had just gotten back in touch with the parental units (long story) so visiting them for Christmas was imperative. Note that this meant driving from San Diego to Oklahoma, as we were also broke.