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  1. Public Bookmark 40

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    Grant was resigned to the slow disaster of his choices.

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    04 May 2026

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    Chicago, 1977. A cop and a criminal walk into a bar. The real joke is that neither of them sees the punchline coming.

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    05 Feb 2026

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    “You’d like him, you know,” Thomas said.

    “I do like him,” Aldo said automatically, twirling the stem of his wine glass, looking into its deep red like it was a scrying mirror.

    “I mean as a friend. If you spent more time with him. You have a lot in common.”

    “Do we use the same shampoo?” asked Aldo, raising an eyebrow. Thomas gave him a warning look but his mouth was tugging up.

    “You’re both stubborn,” he said bluntly.

     

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    Cardinals like Thomas Lawrence and Aldo Bellini know all too well how slowly things move within the walls of the Vatican. But with Vincent Benítez's election cracking their world open, and the new Pope cutting away the old branches to make room for the new, both find that change is flooding in everywhere, mostly within themselves.

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    07 Aug 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 41

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    Grief, and Aldo Bellini's evolving relationships with Thomas Lawrence and Vincent Benitez.

    Each of these can stand alone, but they exist in the same continuity to me!

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    16 May 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 14

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    The year was 1847. There were more than two magicians in England, and one of them had just died.
    “Well,” said the second of the remaining magicians to the first. “I say we consult the Ormskirk first.”
    “The Ormskirk,” said the first to the second.
    “Yes. I think he is as good a starting point as any.”

     (or, Mr. Crozier and Mr. Fitzjames, with different degrees of willingness, embark upon a rescue.)

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    08 Aug 2023