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Kent: We’re just leaving for Montreal now
Kent: Can’t wait to see you again : )
Kent: And Jess feels the same
Kent: I think she has kind of a crush on you…
Kent: Too bad I got there first ; )
Jack: Okay see you soon
Kent: Love you
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Kent: My mom wants to do a Draft Eve family dinner but then I’ll come up to your room and we can hang out
Kent: Or we can “hang out”
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Kent: Or not
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Jack: Kent wat if they dont draft mw
Kent: What? Jack you’re going first overall
Kent: Are you with your parents?
Kent: Are you with someone?
Jack: Knet
Jack: I cnt
Kent: Are you drunk?
Kent: I’m coming up
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Kent: Jack open the door
Kent: Jack I’ve been knocking for like five minutes
Kent: Okay I’m going to the front desk to get a spare key
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CALL LOG—June 25, 2009—11:46 PM
911—EMERGENCY SERVICES
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CALL LOG—June 25, 2009—11:57 PM
ALICIA ZIMMERMANN
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Kent: Please tell me he’s going to be okay
Kent: I tried to come in the ambulance but they wouldn’t let me
Alicia: They’re still not sure Kent
Alicia: I’ll let you know
Alicia: Get some rest, sweetheart, big day tomorrow
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Kent: Call me when you can, okay?
Kent: Love you, Zimms
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Alicia: The doctors say he’s going to be fine. You found him just in time.
Alicia: Good luck today, Kent
Kent: Can I come see him after?
Alicia: I don’t think that’s a good idea right now
Alicia: I’ll let him know you asked after him
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Bob: Congrats, kiddo
Bob: Alicia and I are very happy for you. Your mom must be proud.
Kent: Did Jack see?
Bob: He’s sleeping right now.
Kent: I’d like to come see him
Bob: You’re a good friend, Kent.
Bob: Not yet.
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Kent: Your parents say I shouldn’t come see you
Kent: I really want to see you
Kent: We don’t have to do anything we can just talk or watch TV or whatever
Kent: I have to go back to New York soon and I can’t leave without seeing you
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Alicia: I’m sorry about the things Jack said today
Kent: You told me not to come I should have listened
Alicia: He didn’t mean them
Alicia: He really is proud of you
Kent: sure
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Kent: So I can play second string to you for my entire goddamn career and that’s fine but if you’re not winning than nobody deserves to?
Kent: Fuck you
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Kent: I love you so goddamn much you motherfucker
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Jack: I never loved you
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Kent: I know
Kent: You never said it back
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Alicia: Look, Jack’s getting pretty worked up and he really needs to focus on recovering right now. Maybe it would be best if you didn’t text him for a while.
Alicia: I’m sorry, Kent, I know it doesn’t seem fair.
Kent: Whatever’s best for Jack
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Kent: [DRAFT] so now you’re going to sic your mom on me?
Kent: [DRAFT] well how long is it going to be before I can talk to my best friend again?
Kent: [DRAFT] my BOYFRIEND
Kent: [DRAFT] I’m so goddamn scared, Jack
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Kent: [DRAFT] Training camp started today and they were all pretending like it wasn’t supposed to be you here instead. I mean, fuck, Jack, they made crazy trades last season to tank and clear up that center spot for you and now they’re stuck with me on the wing.
Kent: [DRAFT] Sometimes I think really mean things about how selfish you were to do that
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Kent: [DRAFT] I hate myself for not being able to help you
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Kent: They want me to start on the Aces
Bob: That’s great news. I knew they would
Kent: How’s Jack?
Bob: It’s a journey but he’s doing okay
Kent: Do you think I could call him?
Bob: I don’t think that’s a good idea right now, Kent
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Kent: [DRAFT] The only other rookie is this Russian guy who speaks zero English. Sometimes when he’s looking at everyone speaking English trying to figure it out it reminds me of how I feel without you here. Like we had our own language and now nobody speaks mine anymore
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Kent: [DRAFT] I’m living with the captain, this guy Woody, and his wife and kids and he was like ‘I’d rather if you didn’t bring girls home around the kids’ like yeah that’s not exactly going to be a problem for me
Kent: [DRAFT] Not that I can actually tell anybody that besides you
Kent: [DRAFT] Not that I can tell you anything anyway
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Kent: [DRAFT] I played in my first NHL game and scored my first NHL goal like I’ve been dreaming about ever since I can remember and the only thing I could fucking think about was whether you were watching
Kent: [DRAFT] You fucked me up, Zimms
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Kent: [DRAFT] I’m rooming with that Russian rookie Mashkov on the road and it turns out that it’s not that bad because I can tell him pretty much anything and all he’s going to do is smile cluelessly
Kent: [DRAFT] In other news, he now knows pretty much everything about you
Kent: [DRAFT] Or he would, if he knew any English besides ‘hello’ and ‘okay’
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Kent: [DRAFT] I never thought I would miss anybody calling me Kenny but I guess things change, huh Jacky
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Bob: What’s the verdict, kiddo?
Kent: Just a sprain
Kent: Maybe a few games
Kent: Thanks for checking in
Bob: You’re having a great season, Kent. Keep up the good work.
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Jack: Stop texting my dad
Kent: You can text mine, fair trade?
Kent: Sorry, that was a joke
Kent: A bad one, obviously
Kent: Whatever you want
Kent: It’s good to hear from you, Jack
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Kent: [DRAFT] NEWS FLASH YOU FUCKING PRICK HE TEXTED ME
Kent: [DRAFT] Just because you can’t look at him doesn’t mean we all hate him that much
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Kent: [DRAFT] Sometimes I still dream about you in that bathroom
Kent: [DRAFT] usually I don’t make it in time in the dreams
Kent: [DRAFT] I guess I’d rather have you hate me than have you dead
Kent: [DRAFT] Even if I’m still not sure why you do
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Kent: [DRAFT] Zims cn u plese just tel me wat I did?
Kent: [DRAFT] The lst time i was ths drunk u were to
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CALL LOG—NOVEMBER 29, 2009—3:07 AM
JACK ZIMMERMANN <3
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Kent: sorry
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Bob: I was watching the game tonight, congrats on the hat trick kiddo
Bob: I’d love to buy you dinner the next time you play in Montreal
Kent: I don’t think Jack would like that
Bob: Just think about it. Let me worry about Jack
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Kent: [DRAFT] Someone asked me the other day if you really did blow and I had to work so hard to keep from saying ‘no but he blows other stuff’
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Kent: [DRAFT] Tater always comes over to watch cartoons with Woody’s kids and they help him with his English and it’s actually kinda cute
Kent: [DRAFT] Remember when I was trying to learn French in the Q and you always chirped me about having to read children’s books
Kent: [DRAFT] How come it took me this long to realize that made you kind of a dick?
Kent: [DRAFT] Not all of us were spoon fed French along with our silver plated skates you pretentious asshole
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Kent: [DRAFT] McCall just left for Philly and they want me to take his A
Kent: [DRAFT] Why is wearing the A for you more special than wearing it for an NHL team, huh?
Kent: [DRAFT] Why can’t I do anything without thinking of you??
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Kent: We’re playing in Montreal next week and it would be cool to meet up
Jack: I don’t want to see you
Kent: I’m trying to respect your boundaries but I really miss you and would love to chat. You can pick the time, the place, anything
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Kent: [DRAFT] Fuck you
Kent: [DRAFT] I still love you and I don’t know how to make it stop
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Kent: [DRAFT] There was only one other Russian guy on the team and he just got traded and he has to fly out tonight and we’re in the middle of this long road trip and he just came to say goodbye to Tater and they talked for a long time but now he’s gone and Tater’s trying to pretend he’s not crying and I don’t know what to do
Kent: [DRAFT] I guess I never was very good at being there for people
Kent: [DRAFT] It turns out crying into tubs of ice cream is pretty universal so I guess that worked
Kent: [DRAFT] Maybe I’m not so shitty at people
Kent: [DRAFT] Maybe I was just shitty at you
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Kent: [DRAFT] Tater’s the easiest guy to be around and we barely even speak the same language
Kent: [DRAFT] So why do I still want to be in your hotel room instead even though you’re a prickly bastard who hates my guts
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Kent: [DRAFT] So the guys nicknamed Mashkov ‘Tater’ earlier in the season and he finally asked me what it meant today and it took a while to make him understand but then he came back a few hours later and called me parsnip and he was so proud of himself and I can’t remember the last time I laughed like that
Kent: [DRAFT] The guys are all really cool actually
Kent: [DRAFT] And they actually acknowledge my existence on this mortal planet which is pretty underrated
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Kent: [DRAFT] Looks like we’re going to make the playoffs
Kent: [DRAFT] Not that you care
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Kent: [DRAFT] Look I know I wasn’t always perfect either but I don’t think I deserved the way you treated me
Kent: [DRAFT] You never had to love me back but why did you have to pretend like I ever meant anything
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Kent: [DRAFT] So I donated some money to this animal shelter because I saw a super sad TV ad about it and then they named a cat after me so of course I had to go adopt it and it’s the cutest thing but it has the stupidest name
Kent: [DRAFT] Woody won’t stop chirping me about it but it’s not like I did it
Kent: [DRAFT] At least he’s letting me have a cat in his house
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Kent: [DRAFT] Tater picked up last night and I was sexiled from my own hotel room for like an hour and Woody wouldn’t stop laughing when I had to hang in his room instead
Kent: [DRAFT] You never did that to me when we roomed together
Kent: [DRAFT] probably just because you were fucking me, though
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Kent: [DRAFT] I haven’t thrown up before a game since our first Memorial Cup run but I guess playoffs bring out the worst in me
Kent: [DRAFT] Do you remember what you told me that night?
Kent: [DRAFT] I don’t but I know it made me feel better
Kent: [DRAFT] At least Tater hugs me though, you were always so weird about touching me in public
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Kent: [DRAFT] This is some serious Notebook letter a day bullshit right here
Kent: [DRAFT] Somehow I don’t think you’re coming back for me though
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Bob: Four wins down, kiddo
Bob: Keep your head up out there
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Kent: [DRAFT] I’m about to win a Calder and all people want to talk about is you
Kent: [DRAFT] you have an amazing ability to fuck me over from three thousand miles away
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Kent: [DRAFT] We’re halfway through and we have to play Chicago next
Kent: [DRAFT] Remember when WE were the dynamic duo nobody could stop talking about
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Kent: [DRAFT] It’s been a year and sometimes I still score a goal and look around to see your smile
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Kent: [DRAFT] Tater’s just as nervous as I am for the finals and we stayed up talking all last night because neither of us could sleep even though we knew we should. Remember when we did that?
Kent: [DRAFT] His English is getting really good
Kent: [DRAFT] But now I can’t tell him anything about you or us so it’s basically down to just Kit
Kent: [DRAFT] That’s the cat
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Kent: [DRAFT] jut for teh record, winig the stanle y cup is sooooooooooooooo mchu bettr than the mem cup
Kent: [DRAFT] even wihtot u there
Kent: [DRAFT] so fuck you bcause u cnt take hockey ayaw from me
Kent: [DRAFT] I druck beer and CHMPANE out of the Stanley cup
Kent: [DRAFT] so mcuh beer
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Kent: [DRAFT] Woody’s retiring
Kent: [DRAFT] The front office wants me to be captain
Kent: [DRAFT] They still think I’m you, Zimms
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Kent: [DRAFT] Fuck that, I’m taking it anyway
Kent: [DRAFT] I didn’t steal your first overall and I didn’t steal your captaincy
Kent: [DRAFT] I earned them and you threw them away
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Bob: I got your email about your cup day and Alicia and I would love to come down for it
Kent: Do you think Jack will make it?
Bob: He already has plans that week, sorry Kent
Kent: No worries, I understand
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Kent: [DRAFT] WHAT THE FUCK IS IT GOING TO TAKE FOR YOU TO BE HAPPY FOR ME
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Kent: I know we haven’t talked for a while, but I hope you’re doing well. Let me know if you’d ever like to catch up.
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Kent: [DRAFT] Maybe I should just have my therapist call your therapist
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Kent: [DRAFT] I guess it’s been a year. Happy fucking anniversary, Zimms.