The narrator tells the story of a thirty-year-old man who has just come out of a long-term relationship with another man. The man has asked the narrator to let him go because he is worried that he will have more difficulties in his life. The narrator says that he is not asking the man to come out, but that he thinks relationships are "for two people" . He tells the narrator that he only gets to see him once a week and that it is too painful for him to work in the branch. He asks the narrator if he is angry with himself for sending him to the frontier. He says that the man has to "eat your own consequences" , and that he feels angry at himself for letting the man stay. He wants to know why the man does not have other friends, and the narrator tells him that he knows the man likes boys, and tells the man that he should move out quickly. She tells him to treat the man like a brother, and he responds by saying that he treats the man "like a child wheres the mop, the toilet . . snap space how