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    Summary

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    “Then I suppose yours is the counterbalance, Crowley. Angel and demon.”
    Crowley raised his eyebrows. “What makes you think I’m a demon then, Angel?”
    Aziraphale’s eyes widened at the nickname. “Your presence screams your apathy toward Heaven’s forgiveness. But it’s okay. I’ll always forgive you in their stead.”
    “I don’t need your forgiveness.”
    “Then whose do you need?”
    His mother’s, perhaps.
    “My own.”
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    1984.
    Anthony J Crowley was raised with Jesus, church, questions, and sins. When his mother marries a pastor, he is sent to a boys' boarding school with little to no instruction or reason. There, he meets Aziraphale Z Fell, a boy with every reason to be an angel. Every piece of Crowley cries out for the angelic boy, but Crowley refuses to bring the angel into sin.
    What would he know about love anyway?
    By 1985, Crowley knows too much.
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    Warning for Rape/SA is nongraphic, and is never portrayed in a positive light.

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