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  1. Public Bookmark 53

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    Even after all these years, he can't get that damned fire-juggler to leave him alone – and it's getting harder to order him away each time.

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    05 Sep 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 2

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    All John had wanted was to follow the same path as Henry wherever it led, even if that was nowhere.

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    26 Aug 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 28

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    Every morning, Aldo sits in bed and completes the crossword. Thomas likes to watch him.

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    22 Jun 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 15

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    Cardinal Thomas Lawrence was just starting to feel right about his place in the world again- until worries of his cancer coming back started to creep in.

    He reflects on his relationship with the church and with his closest friend Aldo Bellini through their years together and apart,
    and it may have prompted him to say something that he shouldn't have.

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    08 Jun 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 21

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    That’s what had stung the most about Thomas’s accusation all those weeks ago. It wasn’t that it was true: This, he had always known. It was that Thomas had finally seen right through him, that Aldo had so thoroughly shattered the false image his friend had of him.

    or: i put Aldo Bellini through the meat grinder of guilt and shame and then slap the flimsiest bandaid on the wound at the end because i am a good catholic...?

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    06 Jun 2025