Where Do I Begin? by Elvis Duran

Author:Elvis Duran
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Atria Books
Published: 2019-09-30T16:00:00+00:00

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I realize that’s the second story I’ve told about inappropriate urination in this chapter. But life with Alex never seemed sloppy or out of control the way it had back in the bad old days when I was doing too much coke in Houston. It was just fun. We still laugh about what we call the “Pee-ninsula” story—and, for the record, the hotel was very nice about it.

And while the crazy times got me hooked, our relationship soon came to be about something deeper. It was all about timing. Alex had met me at a moment in his life when he needed to grow up, and I’d met him at a moment when I needed to wake up. Over time, I started to feel like I’d found the kind of excitement I’d always been looking for. And Alex found a way to calm down A LOT without losing his sense of fun.

I think his friends saw it first. But it took me a long time to appreciate just how strong our bond had become. Then came that evening in Vienna, where we’d gone for a radio conference and some tourism. One night, we went to dinner, and—totally unsolicited and out of nowhere—Alex looked up from his schnitzel and said, “Here’s what I love about you and me.”

My heart skipped a beat.

“The things that I’m weak at,” he continued, uncharacteristically quietly, “you’re strong at. And the places where you have weakness, I have strength. Don’t we just kind of fit into each other’s lives perfectly?”

I just looked at him, my Staten Island party boy, thinking, Who are you? The Alex I’d met at the Monster would never have said that, or even thought it. But that night, I finally thought about how much we were growing together—and how much this relationship meant to both of us.

The next day we went to the zoo, because that’s what we do when we travel: We always go to the zoo. Nothing particularly exciting happened that day. Nobody peed anywhere they weren’t supposed to. I think we were even totally sober. But it was one of the best days we’d ever spent together, because I realized I was walking through that zoo with the person I wanted to be with for the rest of my life.

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