“I’ll take off work, too, and we can go together. “I don’t want you to do this alone,” Mom responded. I told her I’d take off work the next day and drive from Oklahoma City to Miami, Oklahoma to speak with my grandfather, whom I had named Pappoo as a child.
Mom called to ask what I thought we should do. I told him I didn’t know anything and that he’d have to talk to you.” One day, my mom received a phone call from her sister Karen who said, “Dad just called me to ask if Scotty was gay.