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    “So,” Ilya cleared his throat, the word sounding too loud in the stillness. “Shane tells me you like New Yorker.”

    Shane’s dad looked at him from where he was rinsing out a glass in the sink, visibly surprised that Ilya had spoken first.

    “Oh. Yes,” he said after a beat. “I like to read in the mornings. I love the crossword. Do you read The New Yorker too?”

    “No.”

    “Oh.”

    or

    While Shane is outside with his mother, Ilya finds unexpected understanding and warmth in a quiet kitchen conversation with the man who helped raised the boy he loves.

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