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    Henry quirks an eyebrow. “I’m almost a full decade older than you, Alexander.” He slides Alex’s ID back over once he’s made a copy. “My address is on the form. Would you be able to come over tomorrow at four so I can show you around the place and walk you through Olive’s after school routine?”
    “Yeah, of course, I’ll be there. Thanks for the opportunity, Henry.” Alex gathers his things and makes his way to the door. He pauses, turning back to Henry with a small smirk. “If it matters at all, I’m bisexual,” he winks.
    Henry lets out a strangled noise, and he can hear Alex laughing as he walks down the hall.

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    24 Aug 2025

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    Pitch-a-friend night is a bonkers concept.

    There’s something genuinely horrifying about having your best friend who knows every single humiliating thing you’ve ever done hold a PowerPoint presentation about you at a bar. Let alone with the goal to convince people to date you. Henry has no explanation for why he’s here, except his best friend is Pez, and he supposes that’s explanation enough.

     

    Or the one where Alex and Henry are introduced to each other through PowerPoint presentations.

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    18 Jun 2025

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    Alex Claremont-Diaz has done it again. The Texas-born singer-songwriter released his fourth studio album second skin Thursday at midnight. Full of Claremont-Diaz’s signature lyricism, critics are praising the album for the cohesive image it paints. second skin is the result of a young writer at the top of his game, and every lyric depicts for the listener a picture of a sun-drenched secret romance. Fans are clamoring to be the first to uncover the mystery girl at the center of it all, although Claremont-Diaz remains tight-lipped on the subject…

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    Or: Alex Claremont-Diaz is a singer-songwriter rising up in the music industry. Henry Fox is the shining star of an acting empire.
    This is a love story.

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    15 Jun 2025

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    “Sorry, I don’t know the etiquette for accidentally hooking up with your favorite author’s boyfriend, trashing his life, being hired to work on his house, only to then become starstruck with the realization that he is, in fact, your favorite author.”

    [Or: Alex gets hired to work on some wheelchair accessible accommodations for a Brooklyn Brownstone. There's just one issue.]

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    06 Jun 2025

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    New York Times best selling author Henry Fox was objectively the nicest neighbor a native New Yorker could ask for. Clean, quiet, his dog didn’t bark (that much), and sometimes he even folded the laundry, abandoned in the scary basement washroom known to man. Unfortunately, Alex Claremont Diaz was not a native New Yorker. However, he was an attractive twenty-something living in Henry’s building, balancing TikTok fame, studying for the bar, and raising a baby all on his own.

    Single dad Alex and single dog-dad Henry make fast friends and even faster lovers, what (or who) could ever get in their way?

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    03 May 2025