The story that went viral by AdminUser

This story went viral in 2019, and it is something so many of the community can relate to: The Twitter user, a 40-year-old married gay man from Chicago, opened the thread by saying: “Oh God I can’t even tell this story and not cry. “I used to manage an LGBT bookstore, when bookstores were still a thing. One night, a caller says he thinks he might be gay and is considering self-harm. “We were not a crisis centre! But as long as we’re talking, he’s safe, right?” “So I talk to this guy and I answer questions, and I try to be encouraging and I’m maybe sounding a little frantic and I’m definitely ignoring the 4-5 customers in the store, and this angel of a woman puts her hand on my shoulder and asks for the phone. “‘My turn,’ she says. And SHE, this 50-something lesbian talks to this stranger on the phone.” “And a LINE FORMS BEHIND HER,” he recalled. “Every customer in that store knows that call, knows that feeling, and every person takes a turn talking to that man. “That story comforts me so much to this day.”