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Clarke had an absolutely terrible hand of cards to play, most of which involved keeping hard-to-keep secrets and then getting bendy with various technical definitions of perjury. Added degree of difficulty for representing-a-founding-partner's-estranged-kid. And looks like he probably had to win to get paid. Bettors who put chips down on "how's Calvin-Ashley paying for this?" as important should claim.
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Certainly grasping more than "rational" exactly, but she seems to have figured that Caleb is her meal ticket from that day at the movie theatre and before.
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Also revealed is why Mr Clarke is putting up with this terrible case for clients who don't look at all like they can pay. I don't recall Clarke personally doing anything really awful that he wasn't more-or-less obliged to do as Calvin and Ashley's lawyer (and I guess he's known all along that he's basically Ashley's lawyer). I didn't really see that at the time, but it's been pretty coherent with this. Also, Caleb should draw up a list of under what conditions he'd be willing to have Ashley be his legal Mom, that perhaps includes once-a-year visitation and a $2.5 mil trust fund
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Aha! That explains Ashley being super interested in Caleb. And the inheritance theories were right even though it wasn't on Donna's side. And some very early groundwork on Bryan and Kenny moving forward. Adds up to a very satisfying chapter
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Hehe, Mateo is mowing Mitch's lawn. Ugh Trent is so awful, if only Kayden wasn't so into it.
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Kayden: " no, I don't like cinnamon rolls, I'd rather be pushed into a ditch. " Jacob was a bit pushy, but argh.
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I guess Tony has very well organized wards (and we kinda got from Finley that housewards build power over time). Argh I caught up right at another cliffhanger!
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Maybe gross energies from the nasty case, and everybody was so relieved when it was over they didn't notice they weren't done ?
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hehe that's fun about the hoarding possibilities. I'm sure Finley can figure something out
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has a nice Seanan McGuire kinda vibe to it. But very fresh as well. Keen for more, but I like the pacing
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There was a great and rather cryptic passage in I Hate This Town in which River was describing to Alec that the relationship started out as a deal, but now "person A" was having feelings. River sorta framed it that it was Kenji that was changing, but it was always a bit ambiguous, and it never really got cleared up who was person A and who was person B in that little . . . um . . . scene.
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The friends put very little conversational pressure on Mike, which would line up with Liam has briefed them that Mike is fragile, at least. With modern boys hair-ruffling and even "you're crazy" cheek kisses is sometimes just emotional-support-bros. You might be right, about the whole group, but I think it could still go either way.
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Chapter 133 One-Trick-Pony
Mattyboy commented on Dodger's story chapter in Chapter 133 One-Trick-Pony
Did this ever get resolved? I remember a significant trail of crumbs that there was some quite significant history between Andrews and Elizabeth, but did it ever lead anywhere conclusive? -
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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