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    shane hollander spent six months learning how to stay alive. he did not account for how much harder it would be to learn how to live.
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    or, shane's pov immediately picking up from where everytime i leave left off.

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    Life feels so chaotic for Shane sometimes, with all the loud noises and the unwritten rules he’s expected to follow, even though no one ever taught them to him. It’s why the bookstore feels more like home to him than anywhere else in Boston. It doesn’t ask Shane to be anything other than himself. Doesn’t ask for any more than he can give.

    He can just exist here.

    Shane likes slow, likes taking his time. And Ilya - without saying or doing anything in particular - makes Shane feel like that’s okay. Like he isn’t doing anything wrong by standing still sometimes.

    (Or, Shane works in a bookstore, Ilya plays hockey, and they both go to the same college. They fall in love in every universe.)

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    09 Jun 2026

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    “If I gave Jackie a day of getting to have sex with me whenever she wants as a thank you for tidying the living room, I think she’d divorce me,” Hayden says.

    “Nah, man, she’d kill you,” J. J. says, which is probably true.

    Shane shrugs. “That sounds like a straight people problem.”

    Hayden is truly glad that the times of Shane torturing himself by being in the closet are over. But. Well. This conversation is kind of making him miss those days.

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    Finally, after everything, Shane is a happily married man. Incredibly happily married. It only becomes a problem once he thinks it qualifies him to dispense relationship advice.

    Or, five times Shane gives relationship advice his friends disagree with, and one time he doesn’t.

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  4. Public Bookmark 83

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    Ilya Rozanov: how did you even change my password

    Hayden Pike: Your password was just shanehollander no capitals no spaces no anything

    Hayden Pike: I’m surprised you haven’t been hacked ages ago

    Ilya Rozanov: >.<

    aka hayden tries to get the gang off reddit and it goes about as well as you would expect

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  5. Public Bookmark 33

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    In 1943, Ilya Rozanov, a Russian émigré, was drafted into the British Army for his gift with languages. In Brighton, he met a Canadian soldier who made the war bearable.

    In 2002, his granddaughter finds a locket that holds a young man’s face.

    What begins as a search through old letters and photographs becomes the unravelling of a love story buried by war, silence, and the passage of time itself. A story that survived in secret, waiting for someone to remember it.

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    09 Jun 2026