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  1. Rec 61

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    Jack and Robby meet during residency in New Orleans. There is a lot of time between then and PittFest, but it takes a uniquely bad breaking point for them to reveal what they mean to each other.

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    21 Oct 2025

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    Me crying about the care and trust 😭😭

  2. Rec 61

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    It wasn’t the first time, and it certainly wouldn’t be the last. It was ordinary, part of both their continued white-knuckled grip on the edge of life. Keeping it together. Sometimes you just couldn’t carry it alone. Sometimes you needed someone to stand by you, to fill the air with words until the world righted itself, to walk beside you back onto solid ground.

    Sometimes, unfortunately, it was that person’s day off, and you had to drag yourself off the roof.

    Jack kept drifting.

    He wanted it all to stop.

    He craved silence.

    Stillness.

    Darkness.

    The world was too damn bright.

     

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    Jack has a rough night and goes to find Robby. Robby tries to keep Jack grounded, however he can.

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    20 Oct 2025

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    Ohhhh delicious!!!
    Miscommunication but honestly in a way that I see them doing and it's resolved quickly! My favorite! 💜🥺

  3. Rec 14

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    In September 2005, Robby left PTMC to travel to New Orleans to assist in relief efforts after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. There he met a young Army doctor named Jack Abbot, who had deployed to Louisiana with the 14th Combat Support Hospital. Robby was immediately dazzled by his new acquaintance, but under the circumstances, the spark between them never caught flame. Twelve years later, after Jack is medically retired from the Army, they meet again, when a newly widowed Jack applies to be an Emergency Medicine Teaching Fellow at PTMC. This time, things turn out differently.

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    15 Oct 2025

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    I just think theyre neat! 😭

  4. Rec 87

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    It goes like this:

    Robby reads a paper written by a Dr Jack Abbot, an ED Attending in LA.

    He emails Dr Abbot with a follow-up question.

    Jack responds.

    It's the start of something neither of them expects.

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    15 Oct 2025

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    Yeahhh im obsessed with them. 🤣

  5. Rec 87

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    After his divorce, Robby has a hard time finding a place to live. When Abbot, nostalgic for their college days, invites him to move in, their renewed closeness stirs unexpected feelings, threatening the friendship they've built over the years.

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    09 Oct 2025

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    Yeahhhhhhhhh I love this!!! 💜