*sniffle* I read this while I was at work and had to keep myself from welling up at my desk.

I'm a sucker for bittersweet endings...love reading them, try to write them but have a hard time writing the bitter.

This was really gorgeous! I loved Ray paying the five bucks for the two condoms and then getting the lotion...He wanted something special to remember and he wanted to make sure Ben had something special to remember, too. *sigh* Really nice stuff!

As for the clamps, I have no idea what kind of clamps they are, but being the sick and twisted soul I am, my brain went 'you can never have too many nipple clamps? you can only use two at a time...'