tonight i will drink a fancy peach flavored homebrew instead of tequila.
cinco de mayo is a strange holiday for me, i know very little about it really, but in my world it marks the anniversary of the day (11 years ago) when i left eugene in a pick up truck with my boyfriend's best friend and some stolen money and moved to colorado. none of the rest of that story turned out all that well, but that day was amazing and life changing and i am pretty sure at this point that i will never forget sitting in that shitty hotel room watching westerns and drinking warm coronas.
it is also the anniversary of the day that my ex-boyfriend's brother killed himself.
every may 5th i think about those two boys from my past, the older one and that amazing day. and the younger one, and the horrible sadness i know he feels every year at this time.
tonight i will drink a toast to both of them.
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