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  1. Public Bookmark 29

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    “A business internship,” Craig repeated. “At Ryder Advertising?”

    “Yes,” Justin said, lifting his glass of water to his lips, as if it could shield him. “It’s part of the honors program. Just four months. I’d be shadowing someone in the director's office.”

    “That’s an ad agency,” Craig said flatly.

    “It’s still business,” Justin replied, his voice cool and practiced. “Just in a real-world setting. You said you wanted me to get experience. This is experience.”

    Craig’s brow furrowed. “Advertising isn’t business. It’s a circus. Smoke and mirrors. And what does any of that have to do with what we’re paying for at St. John's ?”

    “I’ll still graduate with top honors,” Justin said. “I’m not dropping anything. I’m just adding something... different.”

    He didn’t say the rest: that this internship wasn’t about pleasing his father, or padding his Ivy League applications. It was about escaping. About stepping into something new. Something electric.

    About finding something that was his—and only his.

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    11 Aug 2025

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    Eddie didn’t come to LA looking for connection—just a job, a routine, a way to keep his head down. But between smoke-filled lights and a dancer who burns too bright, he finds himself pulled into something deeper, something dangerous.

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    24 Jun 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 29

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    The title says it all... it's been a really long time since our boys last saw each other and it's time to change that.

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    20 Jun 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 14

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    Brian is 38 and trying his best to finish the 4th novel that his publisher so desperately wants. That is, until his life is flipped on its head.

    Justin is 28 and a recluse. He only talks to "that woman at the diner" when he goes to pick up his takeout and Lindsay, who runs the gallery where his paintings are sold. He was bashed by a classmate at his senior prom and never fully recovered. But then, one day, Lindsay catches him off-guard, causing him to accept her offer to come over for Christmas Dinner. From there his life switches trajectory in ways he never could've guessed.

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    15 Jun 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 97

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    While out at the store arguing about how to make Chris' Halloween costume, a little old lady mistakes Buck and Eddie for a couple bickering over their son and extolls the virtues of costume making that her own grandson won't follow with his husband and their daughter. The simple mistake leads to some interesting conversations about how often this happens between Buck and Eddie and later to something they've both been waiting for.

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    30 Dec 2022