Sometime in the beginning of 2010 sometime in the morning Bertram is on his bed in his bedroom (that is filled up with piles of useless shit to do with the matter that he is a claustrophobic) staring at the ceiling thinking to himself about his situation.
Out of interest this is what is going to happen today I am going to wait until Jessie and the children leave the penthouse and then I will be here all by myself and then it is time to party.
Later the penthouse is completely empty apart from Bertram who is still on his bed in his bedroom staring at the ceiling thinking to himself about his situation.
Out of interest this place is completely empty and because of that matter it is now time to go and party.
Sometime later in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City in a bathroom in a gay club called the Stonewall Inn Bertram is dressed up as a woman and is putting on some make-up and looking at himself in a mirror and is thinking to himself about his situation.
Out of interest I am 60-years-old and there was once a time when I came into this place and had gay sex every day for a number of years but in 1986 I stop coming into this place and stop having gay sex and that is just because of the death of a man called Roy Cohn that was to do with AIDS but today I have decided that I should go back to having gay sex and that is not just because I have not had any gay sex or sex in general for about 14 years and I really need to stop that and now no more of this thinking to myself about the past because it is now time to party and get ready to have sex hopelessly gay sex after a dry period of time that has been going on for about 14 years.
Then Bertram walked out of the bathroom.
End of chapter 1