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    Debbie and Lip look at him. Then they look at each other. Then they look back at him.

    "They said there was a lot of blood when the ambulance came," Lip finally says. "We didn't know what had happened. Figured we should stop by and see if you made it." He shrugs awkwardly. "How you were doing."

    "Huh," Mickey says. He can hear what Lip is saying, and there is probably a world out there where his words make sense. Mickey is pretty certain that this is not that world.

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    28 Jun 2026

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    “I'm pregnant.”

    Andrew’s words stay in the air like smoke, like the embers of his cigarette still clinging to their life, despite everything.

    “Okay,” Neil says. Breathes. It’s easy, as if it’s the worst thing he’s ever had to say and that doesn’t even matter to him. Andrew wants to kill him.

    Or two months after November, everything comes undone again. Andrew decides he deserves better than this.

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    19 May 2026

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    “Have you considered the possibility that Neil has chosen you, but believes you have not chosen him?” Renee says. "Have you ever explicitly told him what you want?”

    “Neil knows what I want,” Andrew snaps. This is not Andrew’s fault.

    “How do you know?”

    Because Neil always knows. He is as fluent in Andrew’s micro-expressions as he is in German and French. He knows which head tilts mean “go on” and which ones mean “shut up.” Without ever asking, he learned what it meant to see Andrew wearing double layers of long sleeves, or taking multiple showers in a day, and learned to hand Andrew the car keys.

    That has always been the most terrifying thing about Neil — his patience to wait, watch, listen, learn. The prospect that if Neil were given enough time, there would be no part of Andrew that was just Andrew’s anymore.

    “He has to know,” Andrew says.

    “Does he?” Renee says. “Have you ever known Neil to assume that he is wanted?”

    Five times Neil tells someone that he and Andrew aren’t dating, and one time Andrew uses his words to set the record straight.

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    17 May 2026

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    The Foxes make a bet: will Neil really be able to tell Aaron and Andrew apart if Aaron is deliberately impersonating his twin?

    Or, Aaron Minyard's adventures in identity theft.

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    15 May 2026

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    The recorded number of times someone hit on Neil Josten and got nowhere, and the one time Andrew didn't even have to try.

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    15 May 2026