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Laura is too modest to mention that Jamie was very popular in the comments section; his "availability" was the topic of much speculation (and several offers). The Wicked Mitches of the West, are new, I think (and hilarious)
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The brrr-grrr thing is so sweet
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It's sure looked like that for a while. But it's becoming clear that Ashley is driving a lot of this, I'm kind of hoping that it'll be provable that her shitty cult was behind the attack on Caleb. Ashley wanting cross-ex on the old Diego-Calvin sexual assault issue sorta lines up with that. At this point it's not all that legally relevant re Caleb's custody, but Ashley seems to be really hoping Diego's at fault somehow there.
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Yay for Billy reeling in his trap line in court the last couple of episodes. Nicely played (although he had a lot to work with on Calvin). Caleb still needs to be officially/legally saved but things are looking good. Still don't get why Billy couldn't have let Diego know what he was up to, and that he was setting traps when he was acting up early in the trial. Would have been great for Diego (and the readers), and I don't really think Diego looking shocked/pissed-off in the courtroom was a necessary part of the gambit.
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That turned out great for Maria! Now she doesn't have a boyfriend because her Dad drove the last one off. Cover should last for months!
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ugh, I know teenagers can whip around between moods, but the swings back and forth between the boys being worried about violence and getting bashed, and threatening each other and slapping each other seem overdone. I guess it's a way to increase the tension, but feels like a forced gimmick,
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Good try from Emmerson. I think, maybe? Blue has a LOT going on in his head. Interesting to see how this develops.
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So, I get why Billy was baiting Clarke into arguing the character stuff, and I expected some version the demolition act we had today. But I still don't get why Billy was mixing in the vulgar insults to the judge?
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Argh, Mitch. Yeah, ok, I see the clues now, but there was a lot of potential good there too.
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Yeah, I remember from IHTT that Alec considered River a stable rock. I guess for Alec, he was, just not for himself. Alec's Seattle house backs up the " yes, I can afford something in small-town Iowa" that he rather casually told Finn in IHTT. Great vibe in the room, it's a weird fit between Kenji and River, but they're just what each of them are looking for!
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Rotator cuff Ok, Mitch standing up, Danbury fired, Carl arrested, State AG on it. Yay George! And school admin actually serious about capping this nonsense is excellent- edge of realistic maybe, but sometimes systems do swing into action properly. Ooh that's ugly if Carl was retaliating for the mine road thing, but I guess it's ugly no matter what.
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Rotator cuff is not a good thing to tear for a baseball player - but maybe something good will come from how public that all was. And yay for a reasonably large cast of allies And hehe, "Uncle George is an ordinary guy who owns some gold mines that are doing alright" does seem like it was a rather modest evaluation of George's situation.
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We're already at that Ashley is a terrible person. Luckily she's terrible in a dumb way that Billy can unwrap next court session. My current guess on Ashley isn't just that she's a liar, she's manipulating Calvin into getting the boys so she can enslave them (the marriage helps for that). Calvin will resist this at the end, because while he's an awful person, blood is thicker than water.
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The playlist one would be most likely to get my attention. The scam/hype line seems interesting and very current. Vampires aren't for me, but they seem popular around here. There was a line that popped up this week in another context: "I don't think the abyss is worth looking into anymore." The abyss can still hold an audience, but I don't think it's for me
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I'm with Diego that he might be making a mistake keeping Billy on the case. It's going to be quite doable to get Ashley & Calvin on the merits, and Billy seems to be playing for a mistrial/appeal, which strings the whole thing out for another year. Billy seems to be playing his own game, not Diego's, which is unethical and seems malpractice-adjacent.
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You guess? 🤯 🤯 I had you in the elite group of people who didn't need to guess as what Liam's up to! Very ethical of Liam if so, to not put pressure on Mike, who came in looking like he couldn't stand much extra. But interesting alright, and if so the Liam's plan is coming together nicely!
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Hehe, clever of Liam to hide with Mike, and come out of the closet on his own, and leave Brody thinking he'd looked. Interesting that line: The deal was Liam could drop hints -- Mike got to decide when and if. We sort of guessed at something like that a chapter ago. But interesting to hear Liam call it a deal. So who's this deal with? I'm guessing that's a rule Maggie made for Liam? Could be Olivia. Or could be Liam dealing with himself?
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Yay Mitch! Yay Coach and team! Things are looking up for Pete. After he, um, gets all the stitches out.
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Or you could tell him to up the posting pace, that'd help.
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Ashley seems to be a stronger driver in all this than we'd generally figured. Interesting if Billy finds out something that she's connected to.
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I like the baseball, and that description of Pete finding that he can be in synch with Mitch on the field, and figuring he's probably made the team. Ugh Carl. At least there wasn't much ambiguity about what happened there.
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The intriguing Mr Heyward
Mattyboy commented on Robert Hugill's story chapter in The intriguing Mr Heyward
It didn't take all that long to get to Russ Kahn's bottom, I seem to recall.- 12 comments
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I love how off-hand Peter is that George found a "good vein" and now there are seven trust funds and 3 more gold mines and George changed how he works. So that's cool, but he's more interested in how to plan his athletics schedule and what he's reading in AP English. I get that there's a lot of expenses in small scale mining, and mining can be rather more like an ordinary business than people think, but that sounds like it might have been a very good vein indeed.
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Interesting start. Sorry to hear that any of that is autobiographical, but strong move on the escape. It's absolutely the way kids are with family businesses, and Peter was quite small when he was at the mines, but amazing the way he normalizes that his father and George own GOLD mines. I was wondering with the "we have running water and everything" if this was set in the past, but with the phone I see it's present-ish/ recent past
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I haven't seen this as a major factor in the protest-circuit regulars around here. But you (and your characters) live in a different part of the world
