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    Summary

    pittsburgh, 1993. jack abbot has been in love with his roommate for long enough that it has stopped feeling like a problem and started feeling like weather.

    this is not a story about that changing.

    it is a story about a neighborhood hollowing out, a woman named nora who figures him out in the first six months and stays anyway, a war that eats away at him, and gives back a different man, and thirty years of shift changes that are, in their way, the most intimate thing that has ever happened to either of them.

    official playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1nefDBsQZbI4dQmMcK1I7v?si=43893d77953c4d7a

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    26,518
    Chapters:
    6/?
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