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"We can start here, I guess. If we're talking about us," Pete says. "Nineteen-eighty-six. The first thing I thought, when I saw you in that O-club, was: Iceman is off-limits. Capital O, capital L."
Despite himself, despite the fear, Tom laughs a little. "Oh, yeah? Why's that?"
"Well, first off, we were competition. And yeah, you were attractive, but then you opened your mouth and I swear. You were just an asshole. Goose is trying to introduce you to me and here I am thinking about how much of an asshole you are. Shut up about Cougar, asshole."
"It was supposed to be a friendly competition!"
"Yeah, right. So that's what I was thinking: he's attractive, clearly doesn't know how to talk to other men, might be into the proposition if I framed it the right way. But he's an asshole, so this competition is just gonna be friendly." Pete pauses. Then he says, "Ice, you wanna get married?"
And that's how they start talking about it.
(Or: they finally get around to talking about it. Plus a couple extra stories for good luck.)
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- Part 2 of Easier Done Than Said
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09 Dec 2022
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passed out, threw up, cried, screamed, hollered, danced, ran around my room like a bat out of hell, etc. etc.
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When San Francisco is destroyed, Hermann is sent to Lima and Karla is sent to Shanghai.
The two Gottlieb middle children spend the next ten years emailing their lives to one another – the daily annoyances, the end of the world, and Hermann’s refusal to admit he’s in love with his lab partner.
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08 Aug 2022