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    “This is Penelope. She moved into the house across the way. She’s allergic to nuts, but she has her EpiPen.”

    Five times Bridgertons decide to stop eating nuts, and the time Colin realizes he’d given them up a long time ago.

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    07 Jun 2025

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    Colin knows that touch has always been something he just does. Touching for touching’s sake, nothing more, for friendship, for comfort, to show affection - it's always been something he’s good at. Something he does and something he seeks out. Considering he knows this and does this, it takes him an embarrassingly long time to realize that Penelope, well, doesn’t.

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    Colin Bridgerton is what you might call a touchy person. And this makes Penelope Featherington’s brain short circuit with anxiety, all while trying to avoid the fact that she desperately wants to be touched.

    A story in eighteen parts about how Colin and Penelope learn to hold each other, and fall in love in the process.

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    26 Apr 2025

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    Penelope Featherington is on holiday celebrating her birthday with one of her best friends in literal paradise. All of these things should add up to her spending the week with a beaming smile plastered on her face and having the absolute time of her life. Instead, though, she starts off the trip fixated on the milestone-nature of this particular birthday and one life milestone that she wishes she’d already checked off by this point. Quietly resigned to ringing in her birthday in a few days’ time without making any further progress, Penelope is entirely unprepared for a very helpful offer from her best friend who just also happens to be the person she’d spent years previously hopelessly crushing on.

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    Or, the one where Colin takes Penelope’s virginity “as a friend.”

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    26 Feb 2025