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    Shane Hollander is just trying to survive NYU biochemistry, hockey practice, and the graveyard shift at 7-Eleven. He's too exhausted to notice that his new regular customer is Russian mafia, or that Ilya's interest in him goes beyond terrible coffee and cookies.

    When Ilya hands him a $10,000 designer scarf and matching gloves, Shane doesn't panic. He sells them for next month's rent. Any normal person would be terrified. Instead, Shane uses the leftover money to buy a Hello Kitty watch, pastel pink, childish, utterly incongruous with the danger circling him. He wears it to his next night shift without irony or apology.

    Ilya notices immediately. He is fascinated.

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    Gabriel is twenty years old, has an older boyfriend, and carries the unsettling certainty that he was never given the correct manual for adulthood, much less for spending Christmas with the man he loves and his daughter.
    Faced with the holiday, he begins to create mental rules to keep himself afloat: how to behave, when to speak, how far to go. An improvised manual, written in his mind, built through observation, mistakes, and learning.

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    Nico had always believed that certain nicknames belonged exclusively to the intimacy he shared with Gabriel. Upon hearing Oliver use one of them, he realizes, with discomfort, that this exclusivity never truly existed. The unease reveals an unexpected feeling: jealousy.

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  5. Public Bookmark 32

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    “Half your age plus one,” Nico says. “That’s the rule, right?”

    Kevin gives him a withering look.

    “Seven,” he says. “Half your age plus seven.” 

    (Or: 5 reactions to Nico's controversially young boyfriend.)

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