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  1. Public Bookmark 1

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    (rewrite/reupload of a previously deleted fic)

    Your name is Dolores Estelle Martineau. You're Dolo to your friends and family, Lola to people you really like, and only ever Dolores when you're in serious trouble.

    In 1970, you're fourteen years old, and the first black girl in a newly co-ed science and math school in downtown Brooklyn. That's not all you want to be. When you finish high school, you want go to college and study civil engineering, even if there are few people of your race and gender in that field.

    You're not alone, though. Your aunt's "friend", the highly affluent, highly homosexual Cecily Clark, a college junior and an aspiring scientist in her own right, is determined to see you succeed at all costs, even as her own issues threaten to swallow her alive.

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    22 Aug 2021

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    Javert calls what he thinks is Valjean's bluff about needing three days to find the child Cosette and intercede for her. The Inspector comes along for the ride -- and gets much more than he bargained for, in the process.

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    24 May 2021

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    His home cracks and festers around him. Kei just wants to make it to graduation.

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    21 Apr 2021

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    Sugawara Koushi.

    Oikawa’s brain supplies the name of the person standing at the other end of the aisle before Oikawa can even register him, attuned to spitting out facts about other volleyball players on a second’s notice, even after all these years. Karasuno High vice-captain. 174 cm…no, more like 176 now. Skilled at raising morale and bringing an element of surprise to their strategy. Troublesome. Refreshing. Setter.

    The enemy.

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    21 Apr 2021

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    “Oh. You're. Not Asahi.”
    Calmed down enough that he can speak again, Daichi takes a deep breath, his smile settling on his face easily and wide.
    “Not as far as I know, no.”

    Suga accidentally calls a stranger instead of his best friend, tells him all about his burned batch of cookies before realising, and that particular mistake might turn out the best one he ever made.

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    21 Apr 2021