After four years in a relationship with Mitch, Scott spends a night dreamily recalling the highs and lows of their relationship so far - all of Mitch's resistance to commitment and all of Scott's unfaltering devotion. This story is told in flashbacks/memories indicated by italics, and includes all our PTX friends :)

Everyone was the same. You wake up, change into the same outfit, and then go to school. Society made you all equal, so no person was different from another. If you were strange, you were diagnosed as a Different. For everyone was to wear the same things, act the same, and love the same. A normal person would fall in love after they were twenty to someone of the opposite gender. Marriages were considered a hassle, so you would not have a ceremony, just decide if you wanted to be married or not. Once married, there was no divorcing. For if you were not normal, you'd be coded. Normals wear white, Differents wear black.