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  1. Public Bookmark 9

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    Ogata wondered if Tsurumi-san made bento for Manager Wada, too. Probably. They never had lunch together, so he wouldn't know. As he chewed a piece of fried chicken, he imagined slipping rat poison into Wada's bento, and smiled.

    Money. That's what he needed. Tsurumi-san didn't even like Wada, he only stayed with him for the money. Even then, it wasn't as if the manager position made a ton of money. It wouldn't be hard to make more money than him in a year. Ogata was younger, and Wada had hemorrhoids. It wasn't even a competition.

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    21 Nov 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 15

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    Cardinal Bellini remains Secretary of State of the Vatican. Rome gathers itself under the reign of Pope Pius XIII.

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    12 Jun 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 34

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    Five times, Bellini owes the Holy Father a sexual favor for losing a chess match, and one time he does not (playing with Innocent).

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    11 Jun 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 9

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    "all the way back to that cursed or blessed night [...] when the magnetic circle of existence had for the first time, simply through banal or pure magic, intercepted the other man’s circle."

    Goffredo Tedesco, chef in five-star restaurant, and Aldo Bellini, professor at a famous university — have been married for ten years, living through male pattern baldness, nicotine-induced erectile dysfunction, and old couple disagreements together. Chapters out of order, with flashbacks ranging from the first kiss and first fight, and other pieces of a 15-year relationship.

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    02 Jun 2025

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    Aldo Bellini, the newly elected Dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals, is thrust into a situation which will forever alter his views on faith, the world and his fellow Men in Christ—especially a certain aggravating Venetian Cardinal with a bad temper and a worse attitude.

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    01 Jun 2025