The Roommate Who Changed My Life

A crush, a gay-bashing, and an unexpected transformation.by Christopher FrizzelleSometimes a person walks into your life and changes everything. Sometimes you don't even know them. It's as if they're made out of air, dispensed by time, planted in the river just to bend the stream.His name was Darren. To say I didn't know him would be an understatement. In high school, in the late 1990s, in the suburbs of Southern California, I spent a lot of time on AOL. I became chat-room friends with someone w