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  1. Public Bookmark 44

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    “You only have three options, yeah? You watch it alone, you watch it with us, or you don’t watch it at all and you sit at home and bite the skin off your fingers and wonder how many got their tickets so far.”
    “I wouldn’t be alone,” said Pete. He put a hand over Ray’s where it still rested on his thigh and squeezed.

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    Pete, Ray, and the Long Walk winners of years past watch the next year's Walk together.

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    23 May 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 23

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    There’s a new face at the widower’s group tonight.

    It’s not unusual. The faces come and go, an endless rotation of mourners. What is unusual is how young this particular man is. Twenty-five at most, but she’ll eat her hat if he’s a day older than twenty-two.

    On a late winter night, Pete McVries wanders into a group meeting for widowers, looking for something he’s lost.

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    07 May 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 30

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    Pete considered the question for a long moment, then said, “tell me somethin’ you never told anybody else.”

    Ray blew out a quiet laugh. One foot in front of the other. “You wanna know my secrets, Pete?”

    Pete’s voice was slow like molasses in the dark of the night. “I wanna know everything.”

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    27 Apr 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 3

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    The recording plays on.

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    29 Mar 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 20

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    It had been hard to keep the destination of the trip from Collie, but it was wildly easy to convince him to drop four days of classes to spend fifty-two hours in a car with seven other boys, round trip.

    They've been in the car for five and a half hours so far, and Art is realizing it was kind of a bad idea. It's been fun, don't get him wrong, and it's worth it for Collie, but he fears something will boil over in the next few hours.

    "Is there a single city in this damn state?" Collie asks eventually. There it is.

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    The Musketeers are on a road trip for Collie's birthday!

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    27 Mar 2026