The Queer Love Project
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17th July 2026
"I’ve decided that my best companion is me."
Karim Amin is a retired banker whom I met when I was a nine-year-old girl while spending my summer vacation with my extended Cuban family in Miami Beach. At first, it didn’t seem like he and my Catholic conservative Great Aunt Carmen would become the best of friends. Karim, a Venezuelan-Palestinian man decades younger than my aunt, has been out since his early twenties.