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    "I know I might look naive to you, but I am an adult in my own right," said Rashid as he ashed his cigarette over the balcony railing. His voice was as soft as silk.

    The bony part of his wrist peaked between the leather glove and the long sleeve of his shirt, so delicate and pretty that Daniel wondered if a strong enough gust of wind could snap it in half. Or maybe a hard grip would do the trick. "Mr. Du Lac is not my keeper. I do not need his permission to seek my own pleasure."

    "So you try to fuck all your bosses' guests?"

    Rashid shook his head. "No, only you."

     

    — An alternative universe in which two-time Pulitzer winning, retired reporter and journalist Daniel Molloy embarks on a very ill-advised affair with the help.

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    09 Feb 2025

    Bookmarker's Notes

    Chapter 6 beloved...
    This should be required reading! So! Good!

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    Armand presses his hand against Daniel’s where it still traces his hair, his ear, feels the veins full of his precious blood roping over the backs of his knuckles and up his wrists. “I dreamt I was a mortal.”

    “What, all the way back in … ?”

    “No, love. Here. With you.”

    Daniel snorts, opens his mouth to say something, but Armand presses a finger to his lips.

    “You want me to tell you, so let me. Spare the commentary.”

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    Who of us had not loved something or somebody? How much did these feelings, these loves, these worships, have to do with pure reason? Little or nothing, we saw at last. Were not these things the tissue out of which our lives were constructed? Did not these feelings, after all, determine the course of our existence? It was impossible to say we had no capacity for faith, or love, or worship. In one form or another we had been living by faith and little else.

    from The Big Book by William G. Wilson and Robert H. Smith, Chapter 4: We Agnostics

    Armand and Daniel on living by more than faith.

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    23 Mar 2025

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    ISO: Carer to look after my father for 8 weeks this summer.
    Dad is 71, early stage Parkinson’s disease, broke his hip 6 weeks ago. No signs of cognitive decline; mostly needs help with household tasks (cooking, light cleaning, laundry, grocery shopping), getting dressed, showering, changing cat litter/general cat care, getting to and from appointments.
    Please know what you are getting into; Dad is physically more or less in good health but awful at accepting his limitations, unnecessarily mean, generally uncooperative, and largely nocturnal. Imagine yourself caring for a feral raccoon that is convinced it’s going to write another book, then subtract everything that is cute about raccoons.
    $20/hour, roughly 4 hours a day. Must be able to pass a background check and lift 50 lbs. Patience of a saint not required but preferred.

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    08 May 2025

    Bookmarker's Notes

    everyone do yourselves a favor and read this NOW

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    In 1973, Armand makes him an offer. Daniel takes it, not knowing it leads him down a spiral that will make them both come apart.

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    06 Jul 2025

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