Those relationships take place in the context of continual negotiations of sexual relationships, and so the book begins with that explanation that: I first met Dean not long after my wife and I split up.

他们之间的关系是建立在,不断协商和性关系的基础上，所以书的开头有这样一段说明：,我第一次见到迪恩时刚和我妻子分开。

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