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  1. Public Bookmark 5

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    The door opens after another three knocks, and he’s standing in his pyjamas still half asleep. For a moment, she feels guilty. It isn’t his job to take care of her when she’s drunk and messy. She’s grown, and has a hold on herself most days, but she isn’t sure she can keep living this kind of life.

    cj is head over heels for toby ziegler, and she doesn’t know what the hell to do with that fact

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    08 May 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 6

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    Traditionally, the gift for a first anniversary is paper*
    *interpretations may vary.

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    07 May 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 22

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    Now he thinks of the kids they’ve seen on this trip, chubby babies in unbelievably tiny hats and toddlers running through the tide on unsteady legs. They were cute, sure, but didn’t inspire any real paternal instinct in him. But then he conjures up images of babies with blonde hair and dimples, with his complexion and Donna’s eyes, and something catches in his chest. If he’s being honest, he’s imagined those babies for years.

    Josh and Donna and their babies at the beach.

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    05 May 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 28

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    “Josh.” She enunciates carefully, keeping her voice calm and quiet as she slips the gear shifter into park. Annie’s words from this morning echo in her mind: Just tell him how you feel, as if they existed on a plane where that were even possible. Still, if she’s brave she just might be able to get there in a way that doesn’t make her want to bang her skull against a wall, by talking in tighter and tighter circles around it.

    “What’s wrong?” Josh asks, already almost vibrating with a concern that’s ready to be churned into action. He cranes back to check on the kids; Maddie huffs out a breath and turns her face further into the car upholstery, but neither of the kids wakes.

    “What exactly do you think love is?” The question is directed at him but Donna’s gaze is directed at her hands, still grasping the steering wheel of the rental car at ten and two.

    *** a happy ending fix-it follow-up to all i ever wanted (was a life in your shape) aka one of the many possible universes; in which, Donna pulls that car over and tells Josh how she feels and then there's a lot of mutual pining across the midwest ***

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    15 Apr 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 7

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    His eyes close, despite the fact it’s barely past nine.

    “Papa?”

    He opens one eye.

    Their four-and-a-half year old girl is standing by the bed, clad in her warmest pyjamas and blinking up at him with her mother’s eyes. CJ lifts her head, furrowing her eyebrows in concern.

    “Can I come in here? With you and mama?”

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    11 Apr 2025