kindler chefs he's worked under, line cooks he's worked with, bougie regulars at his bougie steakhouse, people he's known from his (too many) years as a crippling alcoholic, people he got drunk with (m/f), hookups (m), people who funded his habit for free - friends? are those called friends? (m/f) or for trade (m). in addition to working kitchens, he's also been something of a do-whatever-for-money kind of guy, so anyone who'd have known him as a bartender/barback/laborer/go-go boy/we-call-them-sex-workers-but-that-not-what-he'd-call-it around the denver area. people who'd know him from his last couple of sober years of aa/yoga/gym-broing/running/volunteering/etc.