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Boy meets boy, leaves boy, meets another boy. All the usual things happen to someone with a thankfully less-than-usual life.

“OK, here we are, sweety. It’s number 31.” I know that tone. She uses it when she wants me to do something. Or rather, when she wants me to do something that she believes is good for me and thinks I need to be convinced. Not like when she just wants me to clean up the dishes or something. My mum pulled her unnecessary SUV over to a stop as she spoke. We live on the edge of a small coastal city, and there is literally nothing that warrants such a big vehicle. But she, like apparent

You too, tim.

A brave and talented man who sadly passed away after contracting AIDS from a blood transfusion. He wrote A Hard Road to Glory and did much for AIDS, refugees and kids. He cared about others deeply. He once said: "True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost." Have a good Thursday.

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Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it. And... I haven't ever seriously considered writing more of these two, but it's an intriguing thought, and would be the perfect way to further procrastinate on finishing any of my currently unfinished projects! 🤣

Thank you for reading them, Bill. Number 5 seems to be a favourite. It's more of a classic style. Anyway, thanks again!

@Anton_Cloche sooo that means I did an awesome job on this one, right? I LOVE the gifs.

Well, I am also headed back to the dentist. My (less than a year old) dentures have the anchor hook on the uppers break off and a crack in the lowers. At least no novacain involved and I don't have to hang upside down!

I was doing really well with nary a tear shed until Dwight appeared not once, but twice, in Phil's "window". I am keen to learn more about him @Ronyx because it appears he may have been the "love of his life" for Phil, a life cut short by HIV/AIDS. Several other readers have expressed their concern for Stanley's welfare, with @weinerdog going so far as to wish Matt from Stuff People Do could make a guest appearance to provide counsel not only to Stanley, but perhaps to Mrs Sullivan too. It appears Mr Sullivan may be a lost cause, unless it was just the fact he caught his son watching porn, rather than watching specifically gay porn, which caused his outburst. Methinks it was more likely the gay porn, rather than just the porn, which has outraged him so. I hope that between Phil and Colin they are able to track down Stanley and provide him with the comfort and reassurance he so desperately needs. I was 1 month old when President Kennedy was assassinated. My father has on occasion recalled where he was at the time, he was bathing me and he and my mother were shocked as many were. I must confess I know little of his political achievements, these having been overshadowed in the press at least, by his alleged womanising, particularly with Marilyn Monroe. The joy experienced by Phil from something as simple as a clean shave and a fresh haircut was beautifully captured @Ronyx. I am often surprised when I have had a fresh haircut (as I did yesterday) what a "pick me up" it can be if I am feeling stressed, a little blue or unwell. The pleasure derived from simple things like this should not be underestimated, particular in today's often shallow modern world obsessed with technology and social media.

Yeah, these last couple of chapters almost rival what Kyle Aarons writes in his Kandric Saga!

Kokomo, IN

ceiling lowered

Ezra

weird

And back to me. Not that I'd do it, but it's Hug a Plumber Day. We all have it, it's National DNA Day. For those of you who can do it, Take your Son and Daughter to Work today. Let's hear it for the Telephone today. Todays snack is Zucchini Bread.

What a roller coaster ride! We meet many an interesting person during our course of the story, both in Carlos personal and his professional life.

Hear Kitty, Kitty.😼

So, they are essentially only throwing one party after another at this point. Oh my … 😬 But at least, now they finally learned another term for "making love" … Is that a nod to bragging about the cars in the first chapters? The qualifier makes it pretty flexible, mind you 😉 👍 Pretty conservative. Life is not all about kids. Not about the "perfect" two children family. And you don't need to have an excuse (being career-focussed) to not want kids. And there doesn't have to be the qualifier "yet". Well, it's not like it was kinda prophesized in the comments of earlier chapters that Carlo's methods and decisions are sometimes a little questionable, so it's only logical that something happened. As I said in your other story: Very American that the only thing, one can think of, is a car 😜

psychedelics

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Drugs

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I was 12 and in the 7th grade. It was maybe a quarter to 11 am (pacific time) when a student from the office brought a note to our Social Studies teacher, who turned on the TV. I was busy reading our assignment when kids around me began crying (especially the girls) and making enough noise that I looked up to see what was going on. I can readily understand how Phillip feels that people today don't know about Nov. 22nd but don't even remember Sept. 11th. It looks like Colin and Jason might be getting closer. That's a good thing. Phillip needs something good to happen in his life.

Thank you for an excellent story. We are used to stories where the protagonist (In this case Carlo) is really smart and while nobody 's perfect you would think they would learn from mistakes it's disappointing that Carlo apparently didn't unless it was something totally different and unrelated to what happened with Duncan. Could somebody with incidents like Carlo had get work like he did? I'm glad you mentioned what year this story started I was going to mention "A Laurel and Hardy Story 100 years old? I have to admit prompt #68 sounds very interesting looking forward to it Oh BTW I didn't skip to the end