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The trick to Jack Abbot's coffee was that there wasn't one, and Robby had learned it anyway.
At a quarter to six Robby was at the counter, hair still wet, scrub top inside-out, half-assembled for the day shift, when Jack wandered in. He had no business being awake—it was his night off—but years of working nights had worn the ordinary hours smooth in him, and he'd never quite managed to sleep through Robby's side of the bed going cold. So he got up, the way he always did the mornings he was home, to stand in the kitchen and see the man off. His coffee was waiting on the counter—black, scalding, two sugars he'd deny to his grave that he took. Robby had made it, the way Robby made it every morning Jack was home to drink it: the one with somewhere to be looking after the one without. Jack picked it up without breaking stride, the way you'd pick up your own hand. He didn't say thank you. Thank you was for strangers. He bumped his shoulder into Robby's on the way to the window and that was the whole sentence, subject and verb and object: you, here, this.
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The one where Robby finds out that Jack has been receiving mail addressed to his late wife and decides to do something about it.Bookmarked by Cuthan
14 Jul 2026
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Robby has a breakdown road trip, Jack invites himself along, there is religious symbolism, Mary Oliver poems, unresolved trauma, history stops, and an alarming amount of emotional blood-letting in scenic national and state parks.
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- Part 2 of Midbar (מִדְבָּר)
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27 Jun 2026
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A burned-out Michael picks up a hitchhiker on a dead Nebraska highway at midnight. He hates soldiers. The hitchhiker is one.
Jack is recently discharged, quiet, bruised by the military in ways he doesn’t explain ends up trapped with Michael in an old Mercedes with no AC
They argue, they judge each other... they absolutely should not keep looking at each other.Bookmarked by Cuthan
20 Jun 2026
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In 2024, the Pittsburgh Penguins, headed up by Coach Robby Robinavitch, select Dennis Whitaker first overall in the NHL draft.
In 1986, two generational talents, both with the ambitions of nations on their backs, meet for the first time at the 1986 World Juniors.
What follows is history.
In which: sports are political, health is political, and everything is political except for politics, which is about sports.
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05 Jun 2026
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this was what they meant, he thought, in the haftarot of consolation, behold I will set your stones with carbuncle, and I will lay your foundations with sapphires, the foundations of his soul had been cleared out and replaced with glittering stones and he felt— free, unencumbered, like nothing and nobody could hurt him, not ever again.
Pittsburgh, 1986-1990.
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- Part 1 of tzedek, tzedek, tirdof
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01 Jun 2026