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    Stede is a lonely and anxious corporate attorney who finds himself stuck in a mid-life rut. Blackbeard is a successful outsider artist with a dangerous reputation who feels trapped by his fame. When they meet on an art gallery roof one fateful evening, they discover just how much opposites attract.

    What did I know, what did I know
    of love’s austere and lonely offices?
    -Robert Hayden, from Those Winter Sundays

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