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Out Of Touch by Michael Sarais
challenging
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
medium-paced
5.0
The author masterly captured the lives of Teddy and Vincent for over a decade. It isn’t a simple read. It’s heartbreaking, devastating, and hugely enthralling.
We get to meet them first separately, Vincent Stewart is seventeen in 2008 and lives in Sweden with a host family as an exchange student from the UK. Is it nice to live with that family? No! His host mom is constantly throwing him stinging comments. (I wanted to smack her, hard!)
At the same time, eighteen-year-old Teddy Clarke takes a sabbatical for a few months, from Australia all the way to Sardinia, Italy. To be with his boyfriend, before he starts his flight steward course. Said boyfriend... stood him up!
Vincent and Teddy connect through Facebook and start chatting, and soon on a daily basis. The highlight of their days.
They yearn to see each other in real life, the need is getting stronger, and when the occasion turns up, they meet up in London.
‘Vincent,’ he said.
My name a whisper and salvation from his lips.
‘Teddy,’ I breathed.
So far their first meeting in real life, and their promise to meet again and do amazing things.
Sadly, life took a huge turn on them. TW!
‘I have felt so alone,’ I sobbed. ‘And then you came.‘
We make a jump in time. Vincent lives in the UK, and Teddy in Australia. Their friendship is somewhat on hold.
Both are trapped by heavy-loaded circumstances. It was hard devastating and bittersweet. Two guys who love each other, and somehow seem to have to live without each other.
“It's always the case of not being at the right place at the right time”
There’s another jump in time. I have to keep faith, or else I'm gonna scream.
The common thread through the story is where Teddy and Vincent are and how their relationship slash friendship develops, parallel are the stories about their daily lives, separately, my goodness what both had to digest through life. More TW!
It was so awfully real, raw, and so near, the struggles they had to go through, my heart hurt and cried for them.
I don’t want to spoil the details but believe me when I say it’s all meaningful and significant.
It was a beautifully and strongly written story, I read and read, couldn’t sleep because of them, and when I finished I was satisfied. Looking back to all those years, and what they’ve been through, I think I can conclude it was a grand story!
We get to meet them first separately, Vincent Stewart is seventeen in 2008 and lives in Sweden with a host family as an exchange student from the UK. Is it nice to live with that family? No! His host mom is constantly throwing him stinging comments. (I wanted to smack her, hard!)
At the same time, eighteen-year-old Teddy Clarke takes a sabbatical for a few months, from Australia all the way to Sardinia, Italy. To be with his boyfriend, before he starts his flight steward course. Said boyfriend... stood him up!
Vincent and Teddy connect through Facebook and start chatting, and soon on a daily basis. The highlight of their days.
They yearn to see each other in real life, the need is getting stronger, and when the occasion turns up, they meet up in London.
‘Vincent,’ he said.
My name a whisper and salvation from his lips.
‘Teddy,’ I breathed.
So far their first meeting in real life, and their promise to meet again and do amazing things.
Sadly, life took a huge turn on them. TW!
‘I have felt so alone,’ I sobbed. ‘And then you came.‘
We make a jump in time. Vincent lives in the UK, and Teddy in Australia. Their friendship is somewhat on hold.
Both are trapped by heavy-loaded circumstances. It was hard devastating and bittersweet. Two guys who love each other, and somehow seem to have to live without each other.
“It's always the case of not being at the right place at the right time”
There’s another jump in time. I have to keep faith, or else I'm gonna scream.
The common thread through the story is where Teddy and Vincent are and how their relationship slash friendship develops, parallel are the stories about their daily lives, separately, my goodness what both had to digest through life. More TW!
It was so awfully real, raw, and so near, the struggles they had to go through, my heart hurt and cried for them.
I don’t want to spoil the details but believe me when I say it’s all meaningful and significant.
It was a beautifully and strongly written story, I read and read, couldn’t sleep because of them, and when I finished I was satisfied. Looking back to all those years, and what they’ve been through, I think I can conclude it was a grand story!