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November 27, 2025 at 12:51 PM

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5. Nothing Good Comes Home After Five in the Morning

Remember 5 of 9

6. Initiation Into the Brotherhood of Rangers

November 26, 2025 at 9:27 PM

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Jack opened up a phone and showed Maria a picture of her ass with the word written across the top.
Maria felt herself go white.
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Remember 6 of 9

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November 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM

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The Island of Marriage

The Last Ferry Home

November 26, 2025 at 1:57 AM

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1. The Funeral
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“Imagine what it must be like to learn that your father has died. That he has been murdered.”
Coffin returned the gaze.
“I wouldn’t want to wish that on anyone.”

1. The Funeral

The Fisher King (1 of 5)

5. Nothing Good Comes Home After Five in the Morning

November 25, 2025 at 3:23 PM

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Maria had long since left the dramas of Stars Hollow.
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Remember 5 of 9

Thanksgiving: A Ghost Story

November 24, 2025 at 7:55 PM

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Memory has a menu

Notes from the Irish Day of the Dead

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November 22, 2025 at 12:42 PM

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Milestone Road Update

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4. Jane Doe Will Remember

November 22, 2025 at 4:28 AM

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It was four in the morning. She couldn’t stay here forever. Whatever she was going to do for the rest of her life depended on what she decided right now. And she had no clothes.
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Remember 4 of 9

November 20, 2025 at 3:49 PM

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She had to say her name and she had to leave the bathroom. But when she did, it would all start. There would be questions and comments and stares and payback and it would never end.

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3. Nothing Happened!

Remember 3-9

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November 18, 2025 at 12:51 PM

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It’s Dark Now

It’s dark now. The sun slips beneath the horizon at the same hour that we used to get to the beach. A warm wind blows up from the south and…

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November 18, 2025 at 3:42 AM

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Keep the sweatshirt.
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10.5 Cleanup

The Lost Art of Humiliation

November 17, 2025 at 4:32 PM

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Everyone has to eat a piece of shit pie. If you haven’t been served, your piece is waiting on a table somewhere.

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Everyone Gets a Big Piece of Pie.

10.4 Kezar Lake has not Murders

November 15, 2025 at 4:15 PM

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“I would fire him if I could. If I could arrest him and put him in a mainland jail for you, I would. But I can’t.”
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Remember (2 of 9). Milestone 2

November 14, 2025 at 7:15 PM

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She hadn’t heard from him for two days since their last meeting when he climbed the windmill. And now he wanted nudes.
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2. Private Use Only

10.3.2 Do You Want to Stay or Do You Want to Go

November 13, 2025 at 3:52 PM

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“It will hurt worse when I grab your balls.”
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November 12, 2025 at 3:09 PM

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Together, they shouted, “He got…Fucked up!”
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Blooded

Remember (1 of 9)

The wind turned. We went to sleep to a dirty, wet wind from the northeast. It smeared the moon, washed over the stars, and built up on the…

November 11, 2025 at 3:04 PM

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Tolerance is hard

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Tolerance

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November 10, 2025 at 7:24 PM

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“You don’t think that someone will suspend you from a rope while they torture your wife. Maybe your daughters.”
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10.3.1 The Failure to Decide is a Decision

our time together isn’t over yet.

November 10, 2025 at 3:45 PM

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Time is a check we bounce.
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Barr at the Bardo

10.2 The Sins of the Father

November 8, 2025 at 2:46 PM

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“You don’t know Henry Coffin as well as I do. He just wants to talk to you and hear what you have to say. He doesn’t arrest people, generally. He isn’t here for that.”

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November 7, 2025 at 3:35 PM

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The Boy Who Climbed the Windmill

Summary and Road Map