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  1. Public Bookmark 20

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    "'Those bastards,' Steve muttered. 'They coulda killed you. It's shit luck that none of the rest of us were around to help, we would've destroyed them.'

    Two-Bit murmured something in agreement, and if he wasn't certain it would've been agony, Johnny might have laughed. Didn't they know by now? Hadn't they figured it out? Johnny had never been lucky, not once, in his entire life. That wasn't about to change now."

     

    Or, in the days after getting jumped by the Socs, Johnny slowly learns to accept the care and kindness shown to him by the rest of the gang.

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    02 Nov 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 29

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    Darry knows, rationally, that healing "takes time".
    He just wish he knew how much longer that was, or if Ponyboy was even healing or simply fading away.
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    Darry drives Ponyboy home from therapy and gets asked a stupid question.

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    30 Oct 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 42

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    "Ponyboy had almost drowned. Somehow, Darry had forgotten."

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    A trip to the lake reawakens memories Ponyboy Curtis has been trying to leave behind - memories that Darrel Curtis now realizes need to be confronted to be overcome.

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    23 Oct 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 24

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    “Are you alright kid? You look like you’ve been in a fight.” The words taste odd in his mouth, because he knows better. And he is tired of knowing better. Still, like always, he ignores the piece of him that insists on doing the right thing. Absently, Paul wonders how many times a thing like that can be ignored before it withers and dies.

    Paul keeps his eyes on the road as Pony thinks the question over. It’s a moment before he answers, silence filled by the radio he’d forgotten he left on. News. Not local. He’d wanted to hear about someplace else. Someone else’s problems.

    “I have been. A rumble. I’m okay.”

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    "I might have stumbled around all night except for a man who asked me if I wanted a ride." - The Outsiders, Chapter Ten

    It's Paul who drives Ponyboy home after Johnny dies, he's just too out of it to realize.

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    06 Oct 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 7

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    The Curtis brothers anxiously await their fate.

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    29 Jul 2025