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    "No!" yelled one of the twins. "No! We know this one!"
    "Er... right, of course you do," said Shane. Because yeah, figured.
    His phone signaled an incoming text. Shane checked it, hoping it was Hayden with the news that they were on their way. It wasn't.
    Lily: 1 new message
    Shane stared at the screen, felt the tips of his ears go red as his eyes went wide. Here, in this bedroom on soft, fluffy pink rug, it felt like being hit with an asteroid: two-worlds colliding.
    "Uncle Shane! A stolly! You pllomise stolly!!"
    "Right, I did." He locked his screen again and looked at their determined, tired faces. So painfully familiar. It was the same face that Hayden wore semi-permanently during the play-offs last season. It meant playing through exhaustion, bruises that went deep into tissue, joint pain... It meant not giving up. Which was great and admirable on the ice. Less ideal now.
    It occurred to him, there was a clear solution to make them stop arguing whether they knew a story or not.
    "You definitely haven't heard this one before. It's... about a bear... Called Lily..."

    Or: One morning babysitting the Pike twins changes the course of Shane's life.

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