At just 4 years old, Charlie was abused by an 18-year-old neighbor, and it shaped his world. With an absentee father and a stoic, unemotional mother, Charlie searched for love in all the wrong places. He struggled with his identity andchoices that felt like traps, shaping a narrative of homosexuality and promiscuity that often felt like he was living a lie. At 7 years old Charlie began a sexual relationship with an older boy (9) for many, many years --keeping the secret he'd been taught at 4 quiet. He enlists in the Navy,finds himself deep in the homosexual world of San Diego in the late 60s/early 70s. Charlie struggles to be "normal" and eventually falls in love and gets married but continued this hidden lifestyle for the first 10 years of his marriage.
But here’s the question that lingers: Was he predestined to stay this way?
Find Charlie's website here: https://charlieflach.com/
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