I'm 38, my lover's 14

I'm doing a year on a five-year sentence because of a witch-hunt that a district attorney conducted last year in Tennessee. I'm 38, my lover's 14. I should say, was 14. He would have been 15 (almost sixteen by now) had he not killed himself over my arrest and imprisonment.

source: Letter by Stephen Jay Spears; NAMBLA Bulletin, Vol. 11, n. 9; December 1990