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We all need someone to love and trust and Travis now seems to have found people who really do care about him so too in a more proscribed way has JJ with his therapist. Will got the dildo in his mouth, so unless he has a hinged jaw, it was not as big as I imagined but that's ok. Great chapter, ta.

I am enjoying this story. It has a sweetness and innocence

My money is on Taylor!

If the Bucks are a "distinguished" Californian family, what the hell does that say about the others?

I love this story, anarchic and totally engaging. Long though we wait between episodes, the story remains fresh in my mind so that I can begin reading again without recap and meeting the characters once more is like meeting good friends after a long absence. Thank you Mr. Aarons

I love the thought of ripping off Curtis Buck's head and pissing down his neck. Thanks, Brad

Thank you, Mr. Arbour, for the many hours of joyous reading

OMG

I guess they did not have "23 and Me" in those days. This is beginning to remind me of "Dallas" at its heights! Great stuff!

I am so glad I was brought up poor and working class but by a family that loved me. Travis, mate, well done on staying sane and congratulations on having found a decent surrogate family

This is an age when loss was so very much more part of the time than it is for many of us today. That said, I doubt that individual losses were felt any the less keenly. I am so happy that George has a true and constant friend in Winkler

Love Steph, such an intriguing mixture of hard headedness, considerable competence, generous basic humanity and equally generous sluttiness. The complete man

So glad that Brentwood is so effortlessly able to slip back into his role as a head of a now extended family, not to mention some well-deserved r and r befitting the returned hero. Let's hope he has a little time to enjoy being at home before he is called upon for his next service to the State. Still hoping he will make it to Trafalgar

I suspect that Travis will have a very hard time with the realisation that he is far more like Curtis than he would wish to be. That he himself has been so stupid and ineffective will also jar. Those are threats to the ego of a late adolescent that will make or break

The law's delay will surely be enough to see Travis into his majority but if Buck is really that vindictive then I am fearful still for his life. All the drama has almost over-ridden the realisation of both these young men that the depth of their feelings is indeed trending towards the profound.

There used to be a TV advert in the UK set in an elegant Ambassadorial part where Ferrero Rocher chocolates are being served to the guests one of whom, a sophisticated and obviously wealthy femme fatale comments, "Ah Ambassador with these chocolates you are obviously spoiling us!" That is how I feel about this chapter. Mr. Arbour. you are definitely teasing us with so many twists and possibilities. Obviously, I cannot wait until the next episode

The pain of the 1%. I am trying not to feel sympathy for these guys but Travis is such a cool young man

By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes

Ah, the open or not conversation many gay guys have. I think one of the (many) contributions we have made to the World is to challenge the hetero normative view of how people should be together. As I near the end of my life, I have been privileged to share in a number of such conversations with partners and friends. Once you strip out the absolute morality of the Abrahamic religions, it becomes a matter of shared value systems and a matter of trust between individuals. I have been with my partner for almost 25 years now and I think I can say we are devoted to one another but part of that devotion includes the recognition that our needs are not completely aligned so, after serious discussion, outside relationships become possible as long as, at no time do they threaten what we have together. It works for us, but I am certainly not advocating it for everybody. Will and Travis are young and are just beginning to make such discoveries. Wish them well

What an eventful "gap" year this young man is having! Gaining experiences is one thing but adding baggage is another. Will is unusually mature but, wow, all of this would challenge a saint!

Will is becoming a man; I like him more and more

That was great fun! I have sat through so many Sunday dinners almost just like that except for the studied good manners of the period

Ooh, that was deliciously tense. Thank you, Mark!

The mechanics and mores of this age are so different to those now obtaining on both sides of the Atlantic. I do remember the last embers of such standards still glowing in the late 40's and 50's England in which I grew up

Granger getting on top of things with the support of his loyal friends and staff. Good to see