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    This is why - even though he pointedly sends her flowers in April - he knows exactly when the anniversary of their first meeting is. He knows when all their anniversaries are. There's one almost every day.

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    30 Jan 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 56

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    “You’re sensitive. It’s sweet.”

    She bites back a smile at the image she’s evoked. Everyone thinks they know the real Josh Lyman. Bartlet’s bulldog, political wunderkind, the man behind Washington’s curtain. But they don’t know him like this. She brushes a sweaty tangle of hair from his forehead and pretends not to notice when he leans into her touch. No, this side of him is reserved just for her.

    His mouth opens in surprise, voice pitching up a notch, “I am n—”

    “Your system,” she amends. “Your system is sensitive.”

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  3. Public Bookmark 54

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    It doesn’t take Josh Lyman long to become one of the most storied professors in the history of Georgetown University.

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    12 Jan 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 58

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    Donna sighs and slumps further into her Adirondack chair, pretending to read her magazine, but keeps stealing glances at Josh. He sticks out like a sore thumb amidst her throng of brothers, who are, to a number, tall and broad and blond, with a wholesome, open-faced Midwestern quality. Even at 5’11”, Josh still looks slight amongst them, dark-headed and wiry, palpably radiating his particular brand of beltway cynicism. He’s been fully integrated into the Moss brood, though, with a train of children trailing in his wake all morning: she’s witnessed him happily tossing her nephews around, hoisting her niece up onto his back, sparring good-naturedly with her brothers about whether a pitch was a strike or a ball. And it’s a good thing, it really is — she’d worried he wouldn’t get along with her family and after a couple of hours they’re all thick as thieves — so why exactly does it feel like she’s been struck in the chest with a pickaxe?

     

    Josh is dating Amy. And yet, here he is, in Wisconsin, winning over Donna's entire family and making her acutely aware of everything she doesn't have.

    *songfic to Strawberry Blond by Mitski, for October 2021 Big Block of Cheese Day*

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    12 Jan 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 60

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    de·bride·ment [diˈbrēdmənt]
    (noun: medicine)
    The removal of damaged tissue or foreign objects from a wound.

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    12 Jan 2025