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  1. Public Bookmark 91

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    Elio makes the move to start his new position at the same university as Oliver. How long will it take for the immense history they have shared to impact Oliver's life? And what parallel life will he finally choose?

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    16 Oct 2023

  2. Public Bookmark *

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    Elio accompanies his father to a Classics conference in Paris in early 1988, and runs into Oliver at the get-together cocktail event on the first evening.

    “I heard his laugh before I saw him. I hadn’t heard it in over four years, not since that final night in Bergamo, and even now it didn’t sound quite the same. The lightness of it was gone. Yet, it was similar enough that I recognized it immediately.”

    [COMPLETED Jan 3, 2019]

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    13/13
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    16 Oct 2023

  3. Public Bookmark 17

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    Oliver was puzzled: „You hoped to find out if you’re gay by sitting in a gay bar?“

    „No, silly. I meant: I want to kiss a man. To find out if I like it more.“

    „Well, you already did. Any new insights?“

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    11 Oct 2023

  4. Public Bookmark 14

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    "I could need a local guide. I realized it’s easier to get around. Plus, you’re not regarded as a terrorist if you’ve someone in tow people know.”
    I exhaled inwardly. Of course he didn’t want to elope with me. What had happened to me?
    “I’d be happy to show you around."

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    11 Oct 2023

  5. Public Bookmark 11

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    I'd like to try and draw your face
    But it's like pulling a sword out of a stone
    I'd like to try and live in your eyes
    And dream until we get tired

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    72
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    09 Oct 2023

  6. Public Bookmark 43

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    So I've watched 'Lady Bird' and I was taken aback by Timothee's portrayal of Kyle. As deadpan as the character is, Timmy totally nailed it. And it got me thinking, what if grown-up Elio developed such impassiveness? Wouldn't it be interesting to take a look at?

    Enjoy!

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    07 Oct 2023

  7. Public Bookmark 17

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    Elio and Oliver are both taken when they reconnect years after that crucial summer in Italy, but the pull that strings them together is too strong to withstand. They ignore it, they face it, they fight it, and they finally succumb to it — until real life creeps back in and Oliver is forced to resume an existence that feels more constrictive than ever, clinging to the hope they'll meet again and carve out a new moment of illicit bliss for themselves.

    This is what happens when, years later, he goes and finds out if Elio still feels the same.

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    Chapters:
    2/2
    Comments:
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    30 Sep 2023

  8. Public Bookmark *

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    Oliver came back to New York determined to leave Italy behind, but the past is about to come back to haunt him a lot sooner than he thinks.

    Or — four times Elio and Oliver almost kiss, and one time they do.

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    Chapters:
    5/5
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    24 Sep 2023

  9. Public Bookmark 58

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    I fell in love at 24 and never fell back out.

    There's consequences to being in love with someone you're not married to.

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    24 Sep 2023

  10. Public Bookmark 9

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    Annella finds Oliver in the garden, watching Elio from a far.

    Hour by hour, he’d grown less interested in his papers and more interested in the quiet scene taking place under the oak tree across the garden. It was hardly a scene at all, just Annella’s son absorbed in his music, legs folded underneath him like a pretzel.

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    1/1
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    116
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    21 Sep 2023

  11. Public Bookmark 37

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    What if Elio had accepted the dinner invite to Oliver’s house in New Hampshire?

    Eight chapters, eight narrators, one happy ending.

    The lace curtains stenciled patterns on the wall as Micol took a discreet peek at the scene outside. She stilled, ice water freezing her veins. The guest that had charmed her all evening with his music and the sparkling conversation, was now caressing the jaw of her husband and Oliver did nothing to stop him.

    [COMPLETED Jan 27, 2023]

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    Chapters:
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    20 Sep 2023

  12. Public Bookmark 88

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    When he came to the university, it wouldn’t have taken long. I sometimes played with the thought of how much longer we would’ve needed to sit in that booth before we would’ve surrendered to what was still happening between us. Five more minutes? Ten?

    Eight months after Elio visited Oliver at his university and refused to come for dinner, they run into each other out of the blue on the French side of the Mediterranean Riviera. Oliver is still very much married but the thing is—he’s also still very much in love with Elio. Moonlit walks, dares, and conversations on what constitutes as playing with fire ensue.

    [COMPLETED Nov 5, 2020]

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    Chapters:
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    18 Sep 2023

  13. Public Bookmark 82

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    Elio goes to university, makes some friends, learns to love New York, and re-learns how to love Oliver.

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    Chapters:
    21/21
    Collections:
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    13,161

    18 Sep 2023

  14. Public Bookmark *

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    It’s 2007 and Oliver’s short visit to B. is over. Elio doesn’t expect to hear from him again - at least not for another few years, where their lives might once more cross paths, though barely touch.

    But a week later, an email arrives in Elio’s inbox that gives a glimmer of hope that something has been stirred inside of Oliver. Their correspondence continues briefly, and eventually leads the old lovers back to Rome.

    It is here that the pair learn of all that they have missed; the struggles and the heartache of a life apart.

    Can they reconcile a relationship so battered by the effects of time and distance and longing? Or will Rome end how Rome always ends? With a "later!" that really means "goodbye."

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    Chapters:
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    18 Sep 2023

  15. Public Bookmark 59

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    "I was thinking," Elio sighed, making himself more comfortable in the crook of Oliver's arm. “I was thinking that we could go have a picnic tomorrow.”

    “A picnic?”

    “Yeah, by the berm. Would you like that?”

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    15 Sep 2023

  16. Public Bookmark 43

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    When you're drunk, single, and feeling sorry for yourself, what do you do? You call your exes. Except there's one person Elio never calls.

    Maybe that is why fate needs to intervene on the night of his thirty-fifth birthday.

    “Look, I’m sorry for everything,” Oliver said and stepped closer. “Well, not for everything. Not for the good parts.” I wanted to ask what he considered as the good parts. If he remembered the same. My damp neck after dancing in Rome. The Tiber at dawn. Our lovemaking back at the hotel, so languid that I’d almost fallen asleep in the middle of it.

    [COMPLETED Aug 22, 2022]

    [An extra, deleted scene added as Chapter 6 on Aug 27, 2022]

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    15 Sep 2023

  17. Public Bookmark 21

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    Fifteen years later, Elio and Oliver end up having an affair.

    ”I’m dating a harpist,” Elio says, smoking by the Roman balcony with only a towel wrapped around his waist.
    “You are?” Oliver asks from the bed and tucks his arms leisurely under the pillow. He’s stretching on top of the mussed-up sheets, naked and sated.

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    Chapters:
    1/1
    Comments:
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    201
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    21
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    1,927

    24 Aug 2023

  18. Public Bookmark 4

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    A little vignette from the second night in Rome, when Elio and Oliver come back to their hotel at three in the morning.

    “Do you think it’s seen anything like us before?” I ask, the remnants of the wine making me hazy and thinking we must’ve been the only ones in the history of the world to be feeling like this. Love, always a surprise to the one who’s experiencing it for the first time.

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    Chapters:
    1/1
    Collections:
    1
    Comments:
    33
    Kudos:
    66
    Bookmarks:
    4
    Hits:
    643

    24 Aug 2023

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