#I was gonna use this prompt for antarct-fic but then this cut in line in my mind

[setmeatopthepyre]

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[ @118dailydrabble day 36] [118 words]

If you were to ask Tommy Kinard if he's proud of who he is, he would say yes.

This answer is new.

In fact, only a few years ago he would have laughed right in your face, because the process has been a long one; battle after battle after battle fought in a decades-long war with himself, most of which he spent on the losing side.

His recent victory is one built on three truths, three sentences for which he crawled miles through barbed wire and mud and no man's land to be able to say out loud:

One, he is a gay man.

Two, he is his own person.

Three, he is better than he was before.