Writing
fromThe New Yorker
1 week ago"Blue Baby"
A flamboyant director born with a heart defect is mourned, his theatrical identity and playful costume habits leaving a sudden, aching void at his funeral.
"When I was three, they closed my heart up, and as I grew older the difference in leg length grew bigger. "Because the difference was getting so much bigger, I had to get special shoes. On the right side they cut the heel and put extra material in it so I could walk equally. "They measured when I could have surgery when my left leg stopped growing and my right leg could grow equally - and when I was 12 I had that surgery."