I remember coming out to my mom.
I was young, nine to be exact, but sometimes you just know.
I wrote her a note, I don't remember it exactly but it states, something along the lines of
"I'm confused with my attractions, I could marry a girl as well as marry a boy"
I handed the note to her in tears.
She read it and looked at me with a smile and said,
"Why are you crying baby? Come here."
And she held me.
She showed me famous people who were gay or bi.
I grew up on Lady Gaga, I never felt the impact of her songs before I came out.
I knew love is love and will always be love but I thought I would marry a prince or a knight.
Now I still have my challenges.
But I couldn't change how I feel.
When I become a mother, whether, with a man or another woman by my side, I will tell my kids this story.
Because I will do the same thing my mother did.
Sitting on that couch, looking at her phone at all these people I looked up to, seeing they're just like me, made me feel like I could do what they do.
But now I don't label love.
Because it's just that.
I can't see my future and I can't see who I'll marry.
But all I can tell you is I shall marry someone who loves me as much as dad loves you.
Like I said at the start, sometimes you just know.
You knew dad was it.
I haven't met the person I just know is the one yet.
But when I do.
You'll see it in my eyes because you know the looks too.
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