My name is Luke Synder and I live in the town of Oakdale. I was born as Luciano Grimaldi but our family had some major slams with my biological father, Damian constantly kidknapping me when I was growing up and eventually I totally got tired of being used as a pawn by him over the years and decided he may be my real father but Holden is my real dad who raised me. My mother is named Lily. She met and married Holden before I was born. Our family has had it's usual share of problems but the biggest conflict for me ever, aside from my kidney transplant, was last year when I told my family that I was gay. They knew for a while that I had this secret killing me inside but they didn't know what. I think my dad suspected because my friend named Kevin Davis kept coming around and my dad would see the way I looked at Kevin when I was massaging him. Then came my cousin Jade, my mom's sister's long lost daughter nobody ever knew existed. Or at least that's who Jade said she was. She practically knew right off that I was gay and she was cool with it and even helped me try hiding it from my family by pretending to sleep with me in bed so they would catch us together. All of that majorly blew up in my face and eventually I had to come out and tell the truth that was torturing me inside. I was gay! My mom totally freaked. Her first comment to my grandmother was "Luke thinks he's gay!" Then my biological father came back to town. When he learned I was gay he tried to convince my mom to send me to some deprogramming camp. We had this big confrontation when I realized what was going on which caused me to accidently push my mom down our staircase in a heated brawl which put her in a coma for a few months. So there you have it. Me, Luke Snyder, the gay boy of Oakdale. I accept it. Can others?