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    Ilya tries to protect Shane from a threat that doesn't exist. After all, David Hollander is nothing like Ilya's father.

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    “If it ever gets bad,” he’d said quietly, eyes serious in a way that made Ilya’s chest ache, “you call me. Or you call my parents. You don’t get to drown by yourself anymore. They love you. I love you and that’s not conditional.”

    Ilya had brushed it off at first. He always did. “I am not drowning.”

    Shane had just tilted his head. “Promise me anyway.”

    And because it was Shane, because the word promise meant something sacred to him, Ilya had nodded.

    “I promise.”

    (ie. ilya gets sent a photo of irina while shane is in montreal and does the right thing and reaches out for help)

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    19 Feb 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 29

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    For every book Shane spoke, Ilya would give him a sentence. It had gotten better, nowadays Ilya could give Shane a page, sometimes even a chapter.

    But his brain still stalled, his hand constantly reaching out as if he could physically grab the word he needed. It didn’t bother him most days; the way Shane would simplify his language, define a word, or repeat one slowly.
    Shane didn’t think he was stupid. Ilya was sure of that. Ilya could talk circles around Shane in Russian. Just the way Shane did in English – and French.

    The fact that Shane had even started learning Russian to understand Ilya better still made his heart ache. Yet the separation was still clear between them.
    Simple words for simple feelings.

    Simple, simple, simple.

    or, Ilya has a hard time articulating how he feels about his mother. Shane has an optimistic idea

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    30 Jan 2026

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    In a different world living a different life, Dan works at Starbucks and is about to publish his first novel when Phil (literally) steals his way into Dan's life.

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    28 Jul 2023

  5. Public Bookmark 45

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    Two broken souls destined to find and heal each other.

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    21 Mar 2023