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    Many of you know about my friend Steve, who died of a heroin overdose when we were 27 years old in 2013. It was, to say the least, a very painful experience for me, during a very turbulent year and half of my life. I recently got an email from our mutual friend inviting me to a bench dedication they're doing for Steve at a park that was, coincidentally, built near the site where their former dorms were. I mean, I'm going. No doubt about it. I just don't know how I feel about more crying. I'm going, though. I like to think it will be a positive experience. It's just weird to have this come up after having to go to my dad's funeral a month ago. Like I'm having to revisit painful memories from first my childhood, and now my 20's.
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    Chapter 79

    methodwriter85 commented on Mark Arbour's story chapter in Chapter 79

    Marie strikes me as someone who, if she's not going to live in Northern California, would instead live on the East Coast. I don't think SoCal would ever be her deal.
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    Matt, Wade, and Tiffany seem to have settled into a nice family life and I don't want Will to come around and wreck it with the chaos he always inevitably brings. LOL At least until Maddie and Riley are middle-school aged. LOL
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    I did love though that JJ realized he really fits in with New York City. Although I kind of always pictured at one point JJ will come across some East Coast snobby intellectual douchebag who dismisses JJ as some dumb blond California airhead, especially when they realize that JJ isn't interested in college.
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    Chapter 78

    methodwriter85 commented on Mark Arbour's story chapter in Chapter 78

    Pretty interesting you've decided to send Marie and Will off to college while the arts minded people (JJ and John) are likely not going. I mean, neither have talked about it so it seems likely they're both forgoing college. JJ and John both have in's to the artistic fields they're interested in so they likely don't think they need college. Although I do like that JJ is at least finishing out strong at St. Anne's.
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    Zane Phillips looks like he'd be a CAP character. I'm leaning towards Cody, but I could also see Roger. The mustache and hair gives him a 70's or 80's vibe. Can't you just picture this guy getting into all sorts of really fun trouble? LOL
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    Chapter 78 -When Will and Travis sneak out of the house to talk. "Do You Believe In Magic?" by the Lovin' Spoonful
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    I've always kind of imagined that Harvard would go for Will the way it initially went for Elle in Legally Blonde. That would be pretty funny to me, and I like the idea of Mark giving Will the Legally Blonde experience like he's giving JJ the Devil Wears Prada experience.
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    I'm going to pretend this is an alternate universe where Darius is bisexual and Wade Danfield is British royality.
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    Chapter 11

    methodwriter85 commented on Mark Arbour's story chapter in Chapter 11

    I loved the scene of Gail showing the Jeff jersey to Robbie. They really did need to get Robbie out of Claremont to give him a chance.
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    Chapter 8

    methodwriter85 commented on Mark Arbour's story chapter in Chapter 8

    Aww, Brad and Robbie's first meeting. I loved the "bad" stuff. Reminds me of how we said "sick" in the mid/late 2000's.
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    Chapter 4

    methodwriter85 commented on Mark Arbour's story chapter in Chapter 4

    Yeah, no. LOL Meanwhile I roleplay as a Baby Boomer on Facebook. LOL
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    Chapter 3

    methodwriter85 commented on Mark Arbour's story chapter in Chapter 3

    We're seeing the final days of the Hedonistic 70's, i.e. the Last Days of Disco, before the panic over AIDS and the Reagan election ushered in a conservative era.
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    Chapter 2

    methodwriter85 commented on Mark Arbour's story chapter in Chapter 2

    Mark's written these characters as being very sexual and willing to go outside their comfort zones so it makes sense that nobody is perfectly gay or perfectly straight. (Except Ace and John Walsh of Fraternity Memoirs eventually identified himself as gay, but he did still find women attractive. I think he leaned towards "gay" because he didn't get the emotionally attachment to women like he did with his bros after their brosex. Also, surrogracy/IVF is in its infancy now so if Mark wants any of his legacy characters to reproduce a new generation, they gotta be at least able to get it up for a woman. We saw this pattern with JP/Isidore/Billy, and then later
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    Chapter 1

    methodwriter85 commented on Mark Arbour's story chapter in Chapter 1

    I think this is supposed to be a reflection of what a stellar public education system northern California had during the 70's. Mark is from that area and I'm assuming that at the time this story takes place, it was pretty common for ultra-rich kids to attend public schools, especially in uber wealthy areas that were fresh, shiny new enclaves of wealth.
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    Chapter 30

    methodwriter85 commented on Mark Arbour's story chapter in Chapter 30

    Because he knew on some level that Greg liked being a manly man next to a feminine dude so he molded himself towards that. I do remember it used to be pretty commonplace to see same-sex relationships in the media depicted as still having a heteronormative undertone where one partner was "masculine" and the other one was "feminine" and I think Stefan is molding himself into that. Nowadays we're starting to get away from that.
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    Chapter 26

    methodwriter85 commented on Mark Arbour's story chapter in Chapter 26

    Well, I agree but I certainly have NEVER whined to Mark about how slow the later storyline is and how much I want to see
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    I've always leaned towards Kathy Bates for Tonto. She's now hitting the age range of where Tonto was during Be Rad. Come on, she's perfect.
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    Chapter 22

    methodwriter85 commented on Mark Arbour's story chapter in Chapter 22

    I will say that it's noticeable that
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    Chapter 15

    methodwriter85 commented on Mark Arbour's story chapter in Chapter 15

    The 1970's were wild.
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    Chapter 6

    methodwriter85 commented on Mark Arbour's story chapter in Chapter 6

    It's kind of like the joke about how Leo's girlfriends always get replaced by a newer model by the time they turn 25. You really wonder if Leonardo looks in the mirror and still sees his superstar 21-year old twink self. Personally I think with guys like that it's a combo of what you said, and that at some level they're frozen at an emotional age so it makes it harder for them to relate to people that are age-appropriate.
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    Chapter 2

    methodwriter85 commented on Mark Arbour's story chapter in Chapter 2

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    Model/actor Gavin Casalegno (The Summer I Turned Pretty) as the underaged fashion model Will helps out in Gap Year?
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    Chapter 15

    methodwriter85 commented on Mark Arbour's story chapter in Chapter 15

    You two are contemporaries- I think Adam's about two years younger than you so you both could have attended high school together. I was in his Yahoo group as well as the many iterations of it that he had. He would have these meltdowns, delete the group, and then start the group again. He did this all the way up to about 2018 when he quit his online persona for good. I think after Adam finally finished Crosscurrents in 2013, he struggled to find a reason to maintain his online persona. He did try to start other books but he couldn't quite bring himself to actually do it once his love letter to "Matt" was finished. It's kind of amazing that Mark is still going at this for counting on 15 years. (He started publishing CAP in the spring/summer of 2008.)
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    Chapter 13

    methodwriter85 commented on Mark Arbour's story chapter in Chapter 13

    Adam Phillips would have agreed with you and might have gotten you a Negra Modelo to drink while going on a rant against JP. 🤣
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