30. christian wall (childhood) 1982

(reference 24.)

randy makes friends with a boy in his college theater class named christian, who also lives in the same dormitory. christian is more of an actor and randy is more of a playwright, and they become regular scene partners in class. they become close friends and discuss moving to new york city their sophomore year to attend a school better suited to their goals. they also open up to each other about their own confused feelings of sexuality, which randy has written about in his journal. randy's roommate, bear, sneaks out of their dorm room with one of randy's journals and shares it with other boys from broward hall. when christian hears he has been implicated, he cuts off his friendship with randy and says "new york city is off." randy trashes his dorm room, takes his box of writing to a distant campus parking lot and burns it in a trash barrel, then rents a u-haul truck (even though he only has a duffel bag) and drives to new york city.