Summarize the story to which you listened and provide a link to that story. Then write three follow-up questions that you would like to be able to ask the person(s) telling the story.
https://storycorps.org/animation/the-saint-of-dry-creek/
This story was about a rural farm boy, Patrick Haggerty, slowly realizing he was gay (and thought he was doing a good job at it) when he wasn't actually doing the best job. His father who must have probably come across as a stereotypical Southern farmer wasn't the first to notice that his son may have been coming to terms with being gay but he was the first person to do something about it and not in the way you might expect. He confronted his son about it and instead of reassuring his son that he liked girls and that he was just "going through a phase" he told him something along the lines of this: he needed to not hide who he was because the impression hiding, or "sneaking", creates is an impression that what someone believes they are is wrong. Patrick tried to deny what his father was saying about him possibly being gay but Charles, his dad, saw right through him. Some follow-up questions I'd like to ask Patrick include if his father did anything else to help him towards realizing his identity, if he had to deal with coming out before or after his dad died, and how his life would have been different if his dad hadn't been accepting.
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