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53. The Art of Breathing ( Bear, Otter, and the Kid Chronicles 3/4) · The Book-Watchers

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we want listeners. Yeah. Anyway, so we talked about will be talking
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about total good today we're gonna be talking about the third book in the Bear
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Odder and the Kids series. We're gonna be talking about the art of breathing.
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Uh so, breathing, ladies and gentlemen, he said, freeing.
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That's not when I heard the first time he said that. Yeah, I
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said that. And this foll over here is like the art of breathing.
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And I'm like, Devin, shame, shame on you, sir. This
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is a wholesome book. Okay, you get to wear mind uh excuse you.
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It is wholesome as fuck, all right, it really is. It's
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just it, all right, I've been hyping this book up or like the
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past two episodes, these books up the past two episodes. All right,
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elements of the Found family. It's gay, all right. You know,
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there's like healthy, loving relationships. They're raising, you know, older brother
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raising his younger brother, fighting for his younger brother, fighting for the man
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he loves. All right, don't you dare come, don't you dare come
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for these guys talking about questioning that it's not wholesome. The fuck I hate
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you. It sounds like you say, you saying breath breathing, not breathing.
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I'm saying breathing the art of breathing. I understand that. Now I'm
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the slut, got it? Yeah you are. He's like a couple of
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dicks of your day and all of a sudden there a slid. Yeah,
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well you you accepted food for it, so that does make you know what,
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It's not my fault. I accepted food in a movie, okay,
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on several occasions, all right, like you gotta feed me first down.
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And the movie was good. It was gambled those horrors once upon time in
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Hollywood, and a drive in a drive in theater, you're concentrated more on
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something else in the driving theater. So you did it at a drive in
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Okay? I did. I did. So that's something you have over me.
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Public sex right there, It wasn't. I mean, there was stuff
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being calling me a slut. It was hot. It was like one hundred
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degrees outside. Oh yeah, yeah or whatever. We didn't we had to
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take off. We took off our bad. This is not my current lovely
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boyfriend who is amazing. This is one of these dur in the hook of
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days kind of you know, like a driving theory. Though, I do
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it again. That ship was fun. I'll do it again. I'll do
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it again. I'll do it. I'll give enough about how much of the
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hell I was. Wait, yeah, let's move We're moving on, all
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right. Let's get back to the wholesome ship, all right. And yes,
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this ship is wholesome as fuck, Yeah it is. It is,
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all right. So the art of Breathing is gonna be taking a bit of
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a different direction than the other two books that we reviewed so far. It
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will not be from the perspective of Bear. It will actually be from the
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perspective of the kid. So that's what I love about these books. Like,
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the characters are constantly changing, all right. It's not like some other
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books where like it takes place over like five books takes place over a short
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period of time, and we don't really see much development or growth on the
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characters or much change in our characters, in our main characters. This book
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series takes place over the course of several actually several decades, because like it
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starts off from when Bear was seventeen and it ends when he's like fifty.
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But in this book, it takes place over the course of about I say,
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about three four years around there. So when it starts off, this
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actually takes it starts about five years after the events of book two. Tyson
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or the Kid, he is a very He is an exceptionally gifted young man,
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so much so that he skipped several grades and actually graduates high school at
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the age of fifteen, which amazing good for him. The art of breeding
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really talks addresses the emotional trauma that the Kid had he had to deal with
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over the path over his life, mainly due to the abandonment and trust issues
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he developed from when his mother left when he was just six, like five
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or six years old, and he has to deal with his panic disorder.
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So in the wake of book two, he begins regularly seeing a therapist and
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he becomes officially diagnosed with a panic disorder. He initially refuses to take any
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kind of medication, wanting to rather just manage and regulate it on his own.
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He still uses the bathtub as a way for him to cope with his
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panic attacks because, as I've explained before in previous two episodes, his panic
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attacks to him feels like earthquakes, and that's how he refers to them often.
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And when he was just a kid, he developed he developed the habit
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of lying in a bathtub whenever he has a very powerful, very bad panic
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attack, because he read that whenever there's an earthquake, you get into a
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bathtub. It's like his little safe space. And we really see that there's
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a lot of so before like beforehand, his older brother Bear saw the bathtub
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as like, Okay, yeah, this is where you need to go if
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you're feeling like, you know, like yet, just getting the bathtub right
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for having your you're having your earthquake, getting the bathtub, you'll feel better.
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But now we're seeing that Bear having come a long way, he now
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sees the bathtub as a hindrance to kids, to the kid's mental growth,
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because it just seems like a step, like a step back now, like
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it's it's served a purpose once upon a time, but now that they're all
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like they've all started this journey of healing, of moving past that trauma and
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the abandonment and trying to make and trying to live their lives there and by
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extend, also the kid are starting to see the bathtub as a hindrance rather
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than you know, a place for him to chill out and for him to
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manage his panic attacks. So it's also we also see in the story like,
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it's definitely more of a coming This is a coming of age type of
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story. To kid on his actual graduate On the day of his graduation,
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he's he's the valed victorian. So he does make his speech, and at
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the end of his speech, he comes out to his entire school as gay,
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which for him, you know, unlike his unlike his older brother who
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was very dramatic about coming out all right and everyone like though like personally though
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Bear does. The thing about Bear is that he is he's also spazy.
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So when you drop things on him, like, you know, like his
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younger brother coming out as gay, he does freak out a bit because he's
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just more worried for the kid's well being than anything else. But he of
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course accepts it because he himself cannot really say, like, no, I
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can't have a gay younger brother because well, you know, he's gay too,
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and he's happy for a kid, and he of course is happy for
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the kid. And the thing is the kid also has to deal with his
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own feeling with feelings he has for a certain somebody because that he doesn't fully
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understand either. So in book two we were introduced to a to another character
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who becomes the kid's best friend. His name is Dominic. Now, Dominic
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is about five years older than the kid, like five six years older than
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the kid when he first so. Dominic when he was first introduced, was
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was this typical, quiet, big kid. He has his own bit of
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he has a bit of a dark past as well a lot of traum He
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himself experienced very extreme traumatic experience on a traumatic event that resulted in him permanently
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lose damaging his voice, so he can't really speak. He can't really speak
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above like a croaky whisper or a rasp. Really and the kid, who
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was only ten at the time, did what most introverts did. Introverts,
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I'm sorry, did what most extroverts did and adopted an introvert m and named
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and named him his best friend. So their friendship really went strong, has
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been going strong for all these years. Kid Dominic, being much older than
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the kid, decided to pursue a career as a police officer. The kid
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wasn't happy about that at first, mainly because he was more concerned for his
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best friend's safety and well being than anything else, but he comes to accept
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it, and over the years, kid begins to realize that he has much
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deeper feeling for Dom, and thing is, can't he thing is, he
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was originally gonna admit his feelings to Dom, and of course nothing really can
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come of it because he's still a minor, and he is still a minor,
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so nothing really comes out of it. He doesn't get a chance to
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admit how he feels to Dom because on his graduation, after his graduation ceremony,
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he has a bit of a he has a graduate his family throws him
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a graduation party as well as a going away party because he's been accepted into
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an Ivy League school in New Hampshire, so all the way across the country
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from Seafair, Oregon. And so it was in the middle of this party
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that he decided he wanted to at least try to admit his deeper feelings for
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Dom. But he doesn't get the chance because he knows his Dom is actually
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hanging around this girl, had actually brought a girl to the party, and
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this kind of freaks him out because it makes him, uh, it makes
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him realize that Dom will probably most likely won't see him in that light,
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in that romantic light, and he instead decides to just of course keep uh,
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of course, keep his friendship with Dom strong and they part ways.
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Bear and Otter agree to decide to move across the country with UH with the
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kid because since he's still a minor, they can't let him go off to
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college on his own. So they end up renting a place in New Hampshire
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and they go and all three of them move all the way across the country
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for the kid to start his next chapter his life at an Ivy League school.
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The thing is, the kid ends up cutting tie with Dom not long
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after this, because Dom's relationship with this with his girlfriend actually was a lot
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turned out to be a lot more serious and they end up getting married.
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And the thing is, Don wanted to break the news to the kid in
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a much more civil and gent in a much different way, a much more
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different way than than the news was broken to the kid. So Don wanted
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to. Don wanted to tell the kid in person, say hey, listen,
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I'm getting married to my girlfriend and things like that. Let me see.
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I'm sorry, I need to find her. What is her name?
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I think her name was Sarah, Sorry me, Tyson learns to breathe.
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Nope, alright, sorry, I should have looked at her name before I
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started this. I gotta write them all themes down. I am terrible with
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names. People don't judge me not judging. You're totally judging me. Fill
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your judgment from here. Yeah, that's uh. Testamer's bree makes phone calls,
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but out here it is mmm, just uh Stacy. That's so the
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kid ends up like I was saying, the kid ends up breaking and ends
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up breaking. Tithes with Dominic because when Dominic and his girlfriend Stacy decided to
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get married, Stacy's parents kind of jump the gun and send out a why
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sends out a bunch of invitations for the wedding well before Stacy and Dominic were
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ready to send them out, because Dominic wanted to approach the kid about his
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engagement in a much more in a much gentler way and break it. And
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like he wanted to break the news to the kid in a much different way
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because he knows that the kid does not respond well to change, and he
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knows how protective the kid is of him, so like dropping the news that
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he's getting married, like just dropping it on his lap, like that would
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be a very bad thing because it could like freak him out. And well,
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Stacy's parents end up sending in a bunch of invitations, and one gets
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the kid before Dominic can tell the kid about his engagement, and when the
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kid sees it, he has a full blown panic attack, and in the
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wake of this, he ends up cutting ties with Dom because for the thing
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is is that, like I said, the kid has the kid is in
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love with his best friend, and while he accepts dom Dom's relationships, he
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still feels like a string of jealousy. He does feel some form of jealousy
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and protect and protectiveness over his best friend. So and and Dom understands this
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too. He understands that the kid needs that certain things the kid needs to
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be approached. You need to approach the kid a certain way because if things
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like this just are dropped in front of him, it is very triggering for
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him because you know, the kid, like I said, I've mentioned before,
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the kid also has uh trust issues as well, So anything like this
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can be interpreted as a form of betrayal as well as abandonment. So that
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was very true. So getting this invitation just out of the blue triggers the
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kid very badly, and he overreacts. He ends up cutting off Dominic,
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and Dominic does try to apologize and try to talk to the kid, but
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bar steps in and tells him, you need to give the kids some space
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because this is not easy for him. But the kid ends up not speaking
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to Dominic for the next three years. Damn, yeah, talk about it's
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definitely a bit. It's definitely a huge overreaction on the kid's part. But
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you have to understand that the kid, even though, like in the past
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two books, he does come across as a very well adjusted young man and
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he's very bright and intelligent, he's still he's still just a kid. When
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he's like just a little little kid when his mom abandoned him, all right,
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So he has to deal with abandonment issues, trust issues, panic disorder,
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all right, all these things that un ironically boy geniuses have to deal
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with, all right. And the thing is is that this actually does send
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this this whole string of events actually send the kid spiraling down this dark rabbit
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hole because after he cuts off Dominic, cutting off Dominic is actually very traumatic
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for him, and he begins developing some very toxic coping mechanisms as well as
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other bad habits. For the for the most part, he actually develops a
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drug addiction. Oh no, yes, So while he was in While he
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was in school, he started seeing a new therapist, and of course this
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new therapist collaborates with his old therapists, and they decide that it's best,
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it's probably best for the kid to start taking medicine. So it's just it's
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nothing like these medicines are not supposed to are not really supposed to be addictive,
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but they're those kind of medicines like not oxy but they're those very strong
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antidepressants and anti anxiety. And at first these these pills don't really do much
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for the kid, but eventually he thought they prescribe him some much stronger stuff
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that he describes turned him into something like a zombie, like he feels like
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he's in a fog or in a haze most of the time, and after
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a while. Seeing thing is that when it comes to drug addiction, a
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lot of the times people are the friends and family of the person struggling with
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the addiction don't really notice, don't really see it at first, especially if
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that person is very careful. And but the thing is is that bear he
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finds out about the kid's substance abuse from a friend of the kids, so
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the kid starts actually starts dating a by gender, a by gender person who
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goes to the same school, and this person actually catches the kid, actually
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catches the kid buying some pills off of a known drug dealer at the school
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who and hold on, let me see their by gender. Let me see
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here, what's his name? Let me see here, let me get the
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bite that's that's their name. And it's funny too, because you know,
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some by gender people have different names for their different set for their for their
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different sects. So they could be they could be like you know, they
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could have a masculine name for the when they're a man and the feminine name
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for when they're a woman, or at least some people. I'm not sure
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that I'm not saying that's for everybody. But in Corey's case, like when
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you're reading this book and it and it talks about Corey, and depending on
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what gender they're identifying as at the moment, the spelling of their of their
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name is will be different. So like for the mask, yeah, so
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for like the mass for when he's a when he's identifying as a as a
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man, Corey's name will be spelled like c O R e Y. But
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then when she's but when they are identifying as a woman, their name,
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the spelling of their name changes to k O r y or k r k
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o r I, so the kind of like different it helps to differentiate their
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masculine and feminine side. Like it's sometimes like when you when reading this book,
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it's funny whenever Corey's names pops pops up if it's spelled like the masculine
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way, you're just like, Okay, they're identifying. Okay, so they're
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a man right now. Okay, they're a woman right now. Anyway,
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back to the top. Back on topic. Cory catches the kid buying pills
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from uh buying pills off of somebody, And at this point this was early
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on in their relationship, so they hadn't really met the kid's family yet,
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but Corey knew that he lived with his older brother, that the kid lived
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with his older brother and his partner, so he approaches Bear. So Corey
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approaches Bear and tells Bear that the kid that he that he caught, that
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he saw the kid buying pills off of somebody, and Bear was an utter
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disbelief at first, but afterwards, after Corey leaves, he immediately goes into
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the kid's room and just completely tears the room apart, and he finds hundreds
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of empty pill bottles we're talking like, and they were hidden, like very
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well hidden, like under the bed, in like panels, in the wall,
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under the floorboards. He found them everywhere. Yeah, so the kid's
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substance abuse had gone very deep. And he immediately consults his the kid's therapists,
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and they were shocked because even though the kid was regularly seeing a therapist,
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the therapists had not caught on of his substance abuse. Because that's the
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thing about like some certain controlled substances don't really have much of an effect on
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you aside from just giving you, like a nice little pleasant relief from like
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in the kid's case, it helped keep him from having his massive panic attacks.
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So for him, that's really all he was doing it for, as
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well as like to help him cope with the fact that he doesn't have that
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he cut off Dong from his relationship because that's where this all stems from,
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all right, that's really what drove him into his substance abuse was from was
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by cutting off Dominic. And the thing is is that you know, Bear
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also realized that he started They starts realizing that there had been signs because the
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kid, for one thing, the kid had not declared major in the three
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in the almost three years that they'd been in New Hampshire, and the school
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was beginning to get antsy and try and we're beginning to tell him like,
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all right, well listen, your full ride is almost up. You need
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to declare a major one way one of these days. And uh, while
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the kids academia was not suffering so much, it wasn't exactly what the school
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was expecting him from expecting from him. So after telling Otter about what they
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discovered, the two of them immediately crack down on the kid. They confront
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him on his substance abuse. And think about people who struggle with addiction.
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Uh, they' you're gonna it's a sad reality of it, but you're gonna
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deal with lying. You're gonna deal with like it's gonna it's gonna come out
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in a negative way one way or another. Right, They're gonna be hostile,
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they're gonna try to lie, they're gonna try to bargain, they're gonna
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try to do everything they can to justify their addiction or at least try to
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hide or downplay it. That, which is what the kid did, which
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was really sad. They ended up confiscating all of his all of his pills.
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They basically cracked. They cracked down on him. They wouldn't let him
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out of out of their site. They made sure that they made sure he
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completely detoxed from the from the pills. His panic attacks got came back in
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full force and it was very tough for him at first, but eventually they
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got him through it. It was a very tough time for them. But
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after the third year of his school came to an end, uh, the
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school told told the kid that they really need he really needs to consider his
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future with the school because if they if he doesn't get his ship together,
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if he doesn't finally, if he doesn't finally declare his major, then he
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may not be allowed to come back the following semester. So this is going
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to be the summer semester. So this is going to be This story mainly
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takes place over the summer of his after his third year at school and after
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he gets this ultimatum, kid decides that it's finally time for him to return
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to Seafair, come back to his home state because he hadn't been back in
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the three years that he had been gone, and it decides that whether he
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needs his head, needs to really work on himself and figure out what he
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wants from life. So the three of them make the trip the trip back
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to Seafair. Corey at this point is no longer the kids partner. They
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had dated for a short period of time before they ended their relationship, but
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they decided to remain friends good friends. They come back to Seafair with to
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open our from the rest of their family. Creed and Anna are married.
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They have, of course, their their son JJ and I believe no so
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Anna is actually pregnant with their second kid, or at least she's gonna be
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early. She gonna she's gonna announce her pregnancy with their second kid. UH.
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Sometime in this book, the kid is reluctant to UH is reluctant to
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meet with Dominic, even though Bear and Otter kept kept in good contact with
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Dominic as well as the rest of the family. But the way that kid
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ends up reuniting with Dominic was actually pretty dramatic too, because the kid is
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very vocal about animal rights and you know, UH, he's very he's His
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brother often refers to him as the eco training as an eco terrorist, in
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training and going to college has actually made him made his beliefs a lot stronger.
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And he often organizes his protests against like, uh, like meat refineries,
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restaurants that are very like steak and like animal like food, non vegan
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or non vegetarian. So he's he's that kind of kid that goes to a
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lot of those animal rights protests and eco the ecosystem, those eco protests things
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like that, and he ends up organizing one in Seafair for the opening of
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a I think it's a bjs MHM, one of those steakhouses. The thing
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is, though, like, since Seafair has a very small community, doesn't
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have a large like animal rights community, so when he organizes a protests,
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the only people that he can convince to go or a bunch of beach hippies.
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And of course when hippies get involved, we're talking a bunch of stoners,
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all right. And in the middle of the protests, one of the
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hippies gets a little too carried away and picks up a rock and throws it
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through the window of the restaurant, which completely cuts the protest short because immediately
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after the throck is thrown into the restaurant. A police officer steps out of
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the restaurant and guess who it is, Dominic. Yep. Uh so,
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this is the first time he's seen Dominic in three years, and the first
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and their first meeting is Dominic putting him in in handcuffs because and not in
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the fun way. Yeah, get your head out of the guttery moron,
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but China. Anyways, sir, you're a whites You're not white man.
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I'm mixed. I'm mixed, but I was raised I am mixed of Latin
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and okay, wait, thank you very much, thank you very much.
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So I can say, it's so weird to hear you say that. We'll
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get used to it, I say, I say Spanish, I throw out
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Spanish terms all that. Not not really, not really. I'm not making
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fun of you because you because you obviously you can't, but like you never
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do, so when you do, it's so weird. Huh. I guess
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I never do it around you, but I do, not really around not
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around you, but I do. But anyway, back on it. Uh
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So, after those hippies through the rock into the restaurant, they immediately run
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for it, because that's because cop shows because Dominic comes out and Uh.
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The thing is, Uh, the kid and Corey uh did not run,
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so they both end up in getting They end up getting put in handcuffs by
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Dom. Dom doesn't press any the restaurant doesn't press any charges against the kid.
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Uh, but Dom does arrest the kid and take him back and takes
34:35
him back to the Green Monstrosity aka his uh his house, and it's there
34:44
that uh the kid gets ah, he does get chewed out by Bear,
34:50
gets royally chewed out by Bear. But before he does, uh, Dom
34:57
takes the kid aside because kid has refus used to say anything to Dom at
35:01
first, and Dom wants like clears the air with him for over a few
35:06
things, tells him like you can't just throw it, like, calls him
35:10
out for trying to throw away their friendship, like come on, you can't
35:13
just throw away. You can't just throw away our friendship like that. Yeah,
35:19
And the thing is is that kid finds out that Dom's relationship with his
35:27
with his former wife Stacy didn't actually last very long. In fact, the
35:31
reason why the two of them got married in the first place was because Stacy
35:36
had gotten pregnant. Who Yeah, and the kid. And the thing is
35:43
is that because they didn't want to make the kid even more upset, Bear
35:50
and Otter didn't tell the kid that Dominic had had a kid in the first
35:54
place. In fact, they had forgotten to tell the kid even though they
35:59
were coming back and knew that there was a chance that they that the kid
36:01
was going to run into Dom and as well and Dom's three year old son
36:06
too. Yeah, they had forgotten to tell him that so much to the
36:12
fact that when the time came for them to see the time came where the
36:17
kid gets arrested by Dom and then later sees Dom's kid, that's when they
36:22
realized, oh shit, we forgot to tell ty about We forgot to tell
36:28
the kid about Dom's son away. So anyway, after Dom red, after
36:37
Dom reads reads the kid the you know, like the shitty friend act,
36:43
he takes him back to the house and it's there that the kid sees Dom's
36:51
three year old son. Dom's son ben Uh comes out of the house and
36:57
he's completely he's so he's so very shocked. He doesn't it doesn't send him
37:01
into a panic, into a panic episode anything he was at. He actually
37:06
takes the news very well, but he's really pissed at Bear and Otter for
37:09
not telling him about this he's on, which understandably because the thing is,
37:17
Bear was just trying to protect kid, because uh, he's trying to be
37:22
considered about the kid's mental state, mental health, especially because when they when
37:29
Dominic's son was born, this was around the time that the kid's mental health
37:32
was really at its worst. So Bear justifies himself by saying, look,
37:37
we were just looking out for you. We didn't want to overwhelm you with
37:42
anything. We didn't want to overwhelm you with any of this, especially given
37:46
how much of a bad state you were in at the time. And this
37:51
does put a strain on the kid and Bear's relationship for a time. And
38:00
the thing is a kid has to start learning that has to also come to
38:05
terms with the fact that since he is now nineteen years old, he's a
38:09
legal adult. Bear and Otter are going to begin making decisions that don't really
38:16
take don't really have the kid. They're going to start making decisions for themselves,
38:24
right for their own lives. So we also begin to see this elements
38:30
of this in the book as well, because Bear and Otter make the decision
38:35
to have kids of their own, and they don't tell the kid about this
38:42
at first. It actually comes out hilariously at a family dinner. Remember when
38:47
I mentioned that whenever you get a couple, whenever you give Bear a couple
38:52
of drinks, he tends to he doesn't handle his alcohol very well. Yeah,
38:59
and if he was, let's say, trying to hide certain important bits
39:05
of information you get if you get enough drinks, you get a couple of
39:09
drinks into If you get a couple of drinks in him, uh he'll end
39:15
up spilling the beam. He'll end up spilling the tea in like a epically
39:17
hilarious way. He spills the tea. Well, the thing is is that
39:27
Corey, having heard about uh Bear's epic, you know, epically low tolerance
39:37
for alcohol, she they end up giving making They end up giving Bear a
39:44
bunch of like making sure bears wine glass isn't empty throughout that throughout that dinner.
39:55
So when it comes time for uh Bear to make a toast, Bear
40:04
is starting to freak out because he has out he has a lot of alcohol
40:07
in his system now, and he ends up spilling the beans about the fact
40:12
that he and Otter made the decision that they're gonna have a kid together,
40:15
that they're that they're gonna get a surrogate to have their kid, and also
40:21
spills the beans about the fact that Anna is gonna get is also pregnant with
40:25
her second kid, and a bunch of other things, and Corey is just
40:30
sitting there like, uh, imagine, Devin, you've been in her position,
40:36
You've been in their position before. When Tea starts spelling and you're just
40:38
sitting there all satisfied, like, ooh, yes, Tea, yeah that
40:45
was that was Corey. And of course this causes more drama for the kid
40:52
because he's like, wait, what, like, when were you gonna tell
40:57
me this? Like what the hell? He's upset because he he's still more
41:00
or less, he's still pretty upset about the fact that Bear kept Dom's kid
41:05
from him, the existence of Dom's kid from him, and he also and
41:10
so now there's this, but Bear ends up putting his foot down with the
41:15
kid, telling him, listen, I'm very smart. I'm sorry that we
41:19
didn't tell you this right away, but you're not but you're not a kid
41:22
anymore. We may we still call you the kid, but you're not a
41:27
kid anymore, all right, Outer and I have especially, I have sacrificed
41:34
a lot for you to make sure that you're okay and to make sure that
41:36
you have a house, home and that you're taken care of. But now
41:40
you're an adult. We've done our job. I've done my job, all
41:45
right. Now the two of us want to start living for ourselves, and
41:49
part of that is having kids of our own. Eventually, you're not going
41:52
to be in our house anymore. You're not going to be living under our
41:54
roof. Okay, Otter and I have sat a lot for you, all
42:02
right. Now it's our It's our time to start making decisions for ourselves,
42:09
for our lives. And this is basically it's it's this is bear reading giving
42:16
the kid a reality check, because you know, sometimes when it comes to
42:21
like people who have like you know, strong and some health or like who
42:27
you know, you know, sometimes when you have a kid, right and
42:32
they get older, and you know, there comes a point where you have
42:37
to tell your you have to put your you have to basically tell tell it
42:42
like it is all right, Like you're not a kid anymore. You're gonna
42:50
you know, every people around you are going to start are going to start
42:53
living their lives the way they want to, all right, And it's not
42:58
always going to be about you, all right. We made we made sure
43:02
that you are our priority when you were when you were just a kid.
43:07
Now you're an adult. Time for you to start making your own decisions and
43:12
start living for your life the way you want to. And it's also time
43:15
for us to be doing the same thing. And he also and he also
43:20
tells the kid that it's time for him to get pull his head out of
43:22
his ass and make and make up with Dom because Dom is still going to
43:27
be a part of your life whether you like it or not. All right.
43:30
He's a part of our family, all right, and you can't just
43:31
cut him off. So, having been thoroughly having been thoroughly read by his
43:39
older brother, a kid decides that he it's time for him to at least
43:44
start Uh at least start to reconcile with his best friend. So he decides
43:52
today pay Dom a visit at his house, dom H. Since Dom and
43:58
Stacey are no longer together the two of them, Dom lives has his own
44:02
place not far from the Green Monstrosity, and when he shows up, he
44:07
finds dom Uh playing with his son Ben and After some awkward small talk,
44:15
they begin to ah, you know, they have After some awkward small talk,
44:21
they spend some time. The kid decides to spend some time with Ben
44:25
to try to get to know him better. And he learns from Dom that
44:30
Ben actually has a high uh has a form of high functioning autism and uh
44:37
and he and that he also needs to have a specific routine throughout his day,
44:43
because that's pretty that's when when it comes to autistic people, they do
44:46
crave and need uh a regular routine. Yeah, and Dom is a really
44:54
good dad. I have to say, I have to give him that.
44:57
He's a really good dad. He has to think of his son. He
45:00
thinks of his son. He puts his son first over everything. And I'm
45:05
like, oh, he's that's a good dad right there. He's a good
45:07
dad. And after and while while during his visit, Stacey does show up
45:15
and picks up Ben, giving Dom and Uh the kids some alone time.
45:21
Now, of course the two nothing happens between the two of them. They
45:24
just talk and make and you know, and kid makes an effort to reconcile
45:31
with his best friend. It's later on that the kid, Uh, it's
45:37
later on, Uh, excuse me let me, uh, let me take
45:42
a step back here. Uh the reason why we're gonna take a step back
45:46
from those two. So now they're starting, they're slowly starting to uh make
45:52
up and become friends again. Now at this point in the story, the
45:58
kid is gonna taking another road trip with Corey. The reason why Corey decided
46:04
to tag along was because she was actually going to start she was actually going
46:07
to be moving back to her hometown of Tucson, Arizona, and so she
46:15
decided to tag along with them to Oregon, and halfway through the summer they
46:20
were gonna take a week long trip down to actually it's gonna be like a
46:23
two week long trip down to Tucson where they're going to take Corey to her
46:30
hometown and she will be staying there the rest of the summer. And that's
46:32
actually where she's going to finish her degree at one of the local universities because
46:38
she's going to be going into form of social services. And when they get
46:46
when they get ready to take the trip down there, they are someone Finagles
46:53
Bear being a little bear, Corey mainly Bear being worried about the kid going
47:02
on his own and also Corey knowing that something's going on between between kid and
47:07
Dominic orchestrates Dominic coming tagging along the trip with them, So it ends up
47:15
being the three of them driving down the Tucson together, and let me tell
47:21
you, guys, this is gonna this is where things start getting good.
47:23
Who So throughout the book, the thing is is that I'm honestly, I
47:30
gotta say this, they pulled one over me. So it's clear that the
47:35
kid still has some very deep feelings for his best friend, but it's not
47:38
really clear if if Dominic feels the same way. Like Dominic does care about
47:45
the kid as his friend, but it doesn't really like hint at anything between
47:50
the two of them, right, m Like anytime that the kid sees dom
47:55
with a like a season another woman flirting with dom or dom getting friendly with
48:01
anybody, the kid gets really jealous and he's like he gets like, you
48:07
know, like starts muttering to himself like death violence. Right, It's very
48:15
It's it's honestly very cute. But so they all take the trip down to
48:21
Tucson. The kid meets uh Corey, one of Corey's mentors and best friend,
48:29
who happens to be a drag queen and they end up staying at her
48:34
house. Now here's the thing. Cory had actually set up set things up
48:39
with this drag queen to uh get it to where the two of them have
48:45
to share a room together, and she even convinces her best friend to set
48:52
up their room to be kind of like a love suite. Mm hmm.
48:55
So, like they find a lot of like, uh a lot of shit
49:00
in there, like sex toys and condoms and lube and and and the kid
49:07
is horrified when he finds all this stuff, and he's like, what the
49:10
hell do they think? What the hell are they trying to do? What
49:15
do they think we're gonna do in here? And what is this drag queen
49:17
into? So they end up spending a week in Tucson, and towards the
49:27
end of their trip, they go to see one of her best friend's drag
49:31
shows at one of the gay bar at one of the local gay clubs.
49:37
And it's there that while they are enjoying themselves, Kid notices dominic Uh chatting
49:47
with a one of the local gays at the bar, and when he walks
49:53
like he went to go he had gotten separated from Dom during the he got
50:01
separated from Dom during the during their night, and when he goes to find
50:08
Dom again, he notices that Dom is talking to somebody and at first and
50:16
his first thought, his first thought is that Dom is flirting with the guy,
50:20
when really Dom is just just chatting, not really doing anything, smiling
50:27
his business. And the thing is, Dom sees the kid, and I
50:31
guess the kid had this look of like jealousy on his face, Like he
50:37
had this look on his face, right, And well, when Dom sees
50:40
the kid, he immediately goes up to the kid, right, and the
50:44
kid is trying hard, like he realizes that he must look like a creep
50:47
just staring at his best friend like that. And he starts feeling the onset
50:52
of a panic attack coming on. And he starts using his breathing exercise.
50:57
Starts doing his breathing exercise is to keep himself from getting like full on having
51:04
a panic attack, right, and he also feels like a deer cotton the
51:07
headlights because Dom is coming up to him. He's like, all right,
51:10
He's telling himself, all right, don't freak out, just breathe in,
51:14
breathe out. Dom is free to talk to whoever he wants. It's none
51:20
of my business. And while he's having these thoughts, Dom reaches him and
51:27
Dom kisses the kid. Let me tell you something. When I read this
51:31
part, I was like, oh my god. Oh oh, like I
51:36
put the I read these books on Kindle, so I had to put my
51:40
phone down and I actually got up and I walked away. I was like,
51:44
oh my god. I wasn't expecting that. Oh shit, I'm not
51:46
ready. Oh oh who TJ. What are you doing? Oh my god?
51:55
Like okay, So that answers that question. Dom feels something. Definitely,
52:00
he feels something for the kid. So the thing is is that,
52:02
as it turns out, Dom suspected has long suspected that the kid had feelings
52:07
for him, and at first he didn't really feel the same way, or
52:13
rather, he felt something for the kid, but he wasn't. He was
52:15
confused about how he felt for the kid, and he definitely didn't want to
52:23
do anything to jeopardize their friendship, and since at the time the kid was
52:29
still a minor, he didn't want he wasn't going to do anything like that,
52:31
especially because he's gotten multiple threats from Bear that if he does that,
52:36
if he tries anything with the kid, Bear may or may not castrate him.
52:39
Oh so he wasn't gonna fuck with that. But the thing is is
52:45
that Don Guess ends up having his relationship with Stacy. They had their son
52:53
together, but their marriage doesn't doesn't last more than a year, and they
53:00
and they do end up splitting up. And the thing is Stacy is not
53:04
is She's actually a really cool person. She's very understanding, she's very supportive,
53:09
and she knew, she understood that there that Dom's feeling heart. Dom's
53:15
heart was belonged to somebody else, and she realized that, yeah, the
53:21
two of us, it's just not going to work out. I mean,
53:22
we have Ben together, but you know, we both want different things.
53:28
So they end up splitting amicably and they start doing the co parents co parenting
53:31
thing with Ben, and she she already knew, she knew that his heart
53:37
belonged to the kid, right. So the thing is is that Dom has
53:45
been wanting to reconcile with the kid for a long time, but he also
53:50
understood that the kid needed his space, and also since the substance abuse thing
53:54
happened the two of them, he wanted to he needed to approach the kid
53:59
a lot more and a lot like go at the kid's pace, but he
54:05
was actually waiting for the kid to look at him that way because the first
54:09
because when Dom saw the kid at the club and the kid had that look
54:15
of like jealousy and hurt and betrayal on his face, he'd actually seen that
54:20
look before. And the first time he saw that was at the kid's graduation
54:23
party, high school graduation party, because that was the first time kids saw
54:29
him and Stacey together and he's and the kid had given him that exact same
54:34
look, And at first Dom didn't really understand stood what that looked meant,
54:39
but now that he does understand now later on, after some soul searching and
54:45
understanding what like the kid's coming to understand how the kid really felt about him,
54:49
he was waiting for the kid to give him that same look again.
54:52
And once he saw it again, he went for it because for Dom that
54:57
was that confirmation that the kid does actually feel have these deeper feelings for him.
55:01
So when he saw that, he approached the kid planted one on him,
55:06
like, and let me tell you something, the kid like, who
55:08
was on the verge of having a full blown, full blown panic attack,
55:12
his mind just completely went haywire. Panic attack went out the window, all
55:16
right, and like he suddenly he's just over here like in a daze,
55:22
like wait, what just happened? Yeah, Like you ever make out with
55:27
somebody so good that like your brain just stops working. Yeah yeah, the
55:31
computer reset? Yeah, yeah, hard reset. Well, Dom did a
55:36
did a hard reset on the kid, and they do later is some spicy
55:43
scenes, and I want to make I want, I want to put this
55:45
out there that the kid is not a miner anymore. So those of you
55:47
are like, oh, he's still so young, like shut the fuck up.
55:52
Yeah, all right, he's not a minor. And I've already made
55:55
my stands clear on age gaps, like, as long as you're not a
55:59
minor, as long as you're two consenting adults, all right, it's none
56:04
of our business. It's none of my business. I mean, hell,
56:06
my parents have a six year age gap between them, all right. My
56:10
mom was thirty when I was when she and my dad got together, and
56:14
my dad was only twenty four. Yeah, so you know, age gap
56:20
is a thing, so long as it's not I just want to put that
56:22
out there. So long as it's done between two legal consenting adults, really
56:29
doesn't matter, all right. But yeah. So now that the two of
56:36
them have made it clear that they want to be together, they go back
56:43
to Seafair and of course they break the news to Bear, who, of
56:47
course who of course freaks out and he and the kid end up getting into
56:53
an argument. But the kid, but this time it's the kid's turn to
57:00
uh give Bear a reality check, like, Hey, I'm not a kid,
57:04
and I'm not the kid anymore. Okay, I'm an adult. I
57:08
have my own Ah, I have my own It's time for me to make
57:15
my own decisions. And several of those decisions he decides to make. First
57:21
and foremost is he decides that he decided he's going to go back to Uh.
57:24
He wants to go back to New Hampshire and finish school. He's gonna
57:30
finish his last He decides to finish his last year. He does declare a
57:36
major. That he does finally declare as major. He's going to go into
57:38
social services. Thing is he finishes this. Uh. He wants to finish
57:45
this his last year at his Ivy League school on his own. So instead
57:52
of going back to school with Bear and Otter Int, he decides to go
57:57
back by himself and he gets his own place, he gets a roommate,
58:02
finishes his last year done and done, and he decides he's going to come
58:07
back to Seafair and finish out his education at one of the local universities so
58:13
he can get into social services because he was he himself was inspired to do
58:17
that because of Dominic. Because Dominic's own checkered past. As I've mentioned before,
58:23
in the last episode, Dominic experienced a very traumatic event where his dad,
58:30
who was severely and horribly abusive to him and his mother, finally snapped
58:37
and beat his mother to death. Dom tried to defend his mom and actually
58:42
grabbed a pair of scissors and stabbed his dad several times, and this traumatized
58:49
dom so bad that he had a full blown mental He had like a full
58:54
on mental break, which resulted in his vocal his voice box getting permanently damaged,
59:02
which is why dom can't really speak very well outside of a raspy croak.
59:10
And knowing and understanding Dominic's backstory and why Dominic went in too become a
59:15
police officer and inspired the kid to want to go into social services, and
59:20
then also he also got inspiration from his own personal history, especially with his
59:24
mom abandoning him and his brother. Now, the other decision that the kid
59:32
came to was that he wanted to track down his mom because at this point,
59:38
so in the at the end of the last at the end of the
59:42
last book, the kid and Bear's mom actually came shows up again, but
59:52
this time it was so that way she can give Bear her signed papers,
59:57
uh, her papers signing over her rights, her parental rights to Bear,
1:00:05
so Bear can finally get legal custody over Kit over the kid. But Bear
1:00:08
didn't tell the kid at the time that that their mom had showed up,
1:00:12
had shown up like that, because it was just something he wanted to just
1:00:15
leave, all right. He just wanted to let it be. But he
1:00:21
eventually did tell the kid, and he also tells the kid that their mom
1:00:27
had another child and they have a little sister. Uh. So the thing
1:00:32
is part of Tyson realizes that part of him getting over his own mental illnesses
1:00:45
and working out his own problems is that he needs closure, so he wants
1:00:50
So what he wants to do is confront his mother, have one final conversation
1:00:54
with her, and then move on. And Bear at first was reluctant,
1:01:00
but agrees that if that's what you need, then I will support you.
1:01:08
So while Bear and so, while the kid and uh Dom we're driving back
1:01:16
to Seafair, they make a detour to Idaho, where where Tyson's mom is,
1:01:23
and it's there that he meets his younger sister. And god damn it,
1:01:30
what was her name? I know her name? Do you? I
1:01:37
know her name? Okay, all right, let's see the see whoops?
1:02:02
Isabelle or Izzy for short. So they go to Idaho and in a small
1:02:13
out of the way town they find he reaches his mom's house and his mom
1:02:19
wasn't there, but his little sister, Izzy or Isabelle was there. He
1:02:24
meets her, and the thing is Isabelle. She is incredibly She's incredibly smart.
1:02:30
So she when she first sees Tyson, she knows that, oh,
1:02:35
you're my older brother, aren't you. I heard about you. Mom doesn't
1:02:38
talk about you guys, but I knew. Izzy at this point is about
1:02:44
ten years old and about nine or ten years old, and she, she
1:02:53
and Tyson start talking. She invites Tyson into the house and even though he
1:02:59
had never been in his mother's new home, looking around, he's he realizes
1:03:06
it's not that it's not all that different from the shitty little apartment him and
1:03:09
Bear used to live in. Yeah, because you know it's there's clear signs
1:03:14
of neglect. His mom is still a heavy smoker and an alcoholic h and
1:03:21
while is he tells him that she Oh. While he doesn't need easy to
1:03:25
confirm it, he knows that she confirms that that their mom doesn't abuse her,
1:03:31
like doesn't hit her or yell at her, do anything like that,
1:03:35
but still neglect is a form of abuse and clearly his little sister had to
1:03:40
endure that while there. During the visit, his mom does show up and
1:03:50
she doesn't notice him there at first, but when he makes his presence known,
1:03:54
she at first thinks that he's some total stranger because she doesn't recognize him.
1:03:59
She hasn't seen him since like that night that she showed up to uh
1:04:03
threatened Bear and uh. Now he is a twenty year old adult and she'd
1:04:14
never seen him. She has not seen him as an adult, so at
1:04:16
first she threatens to call the police, but he tells her who who he
1:04:21
is, and she immediately gets like nervous because like, you know, that's
1:04:27
what happens. You bend your kid and then they come and then they track
1:04:30
your ass down to confront you on it and and go off on you.
1:04:33
You know you're gonna be pretty you know it's gonna be one of those like
1:04:36
uh oh yeah. She knows what she did was wrong, and so he
1:04:48
talks to her, gets the why'd you do it? You know, gets
1:04:56
the whys and the who what when wheres out of the way, and he
1:05:00
realizes that his mom has not changed a single bit, and she does make
1:05:05
some vague threats that if he doesn't leave then she will call the police.
1:05:10
So he tells her. He says, Okay, I'm gonna leave. He
1:05:15
apologizes to Izzy because he would love to have be a part of her life,
1:05:19
but she's understanding, and he did manage to give her his and Bear's
1:05:25
contact information, and it's a good thing that she's very smart because she has
1:05:31
a photo photographic memory. She made the mistake of of outing herself to her
1:05:40
mom that she has their contact infoe and her mom immediately throws it away,
1:05:44
but she remembers it and she does get in contact with them later, but
1:05:49
we'll get to that in a second. This story is pretty much coming to
1:05:54
an end. He goes back to Seafair with Dominic confronts Bear and tells him
1:05:59
about him and dominant relationship and also his decision to go back to school alone,
1:06:03
go back to New Hampshire alone, where he finishes out his remaining school
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year by himself. The book pretty much the books, the story centered on
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the kid comes to a close. Um pretty much comes to a close at
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this point. Dominic does visit Kid in New Hampshire at like towards the end
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of his towards the end of his time there. And yes, there are
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some spicy scenes that I'll not go intode ah, but this is pretty much
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where the story comes to a close. We do get one final prologue,
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this time from the perspective of Bear. So by this point Bear and Otter
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had already taken the steps to find a surrogate, and their surrogate had already
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has already been and is already pregnant with their kid. They thought about going
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through the using the method of surrogacy of insimmonation, where doctors take the semen
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of both partners and mix them together to kind of like make a it's like
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that rule more complicated way of basically conceive the artificially conceiving a child using the
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DNA of both partners, so when the kid comes out, it's going to
1:07:34
be like equal parts, like dad and dad. Yeah, I want I
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would love to do that one. That would be cool. But the thing
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is is that that is very expensive as it is a normal surrogacy is like
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seventy thousand dollars on average. So they decide to do the surrogacy with just
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one of their with just one of them being the dad in honor. Honor
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is the one who makes that to sit who who suggests that, like,
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let's just do it with just one of us being the dad, and he
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convinces Bear to let tells Bear that he wants Bear to be the dad,
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to be the donor, so to be their kid. It'll be Bear's kid.
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And while Bear is like, well wait, once you want kids to
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be like one of the at least one kids be yours, and like,
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would you want the kid to be yours? And he's like, no,
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it's okay. I mean my parents already got their grandkid out of got their
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grandkids out of Creed. Because Creed now has two kids. Mm hmm,
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a JJ and c J. There's a there's a trend in the names there.
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Yeah, And so they pretty much when the when the prologue happens,
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it's already pretty much like mid term, so at the point where the baby
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has develop enough to where they can find out the gender. And so their
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surrogate was gonna go was going to the Ultra Sun appointment. They wanted to
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be there, but they had other stuff to do and they couldn't really make
1:09:15
it because her appointment was going to be in another town. Uh. So
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they're just waiting for her to tell them, like give them the news,
1:09:21
like how's the baby right? And they wanted to they made the decision to
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wait on knowing the gender of the baby on Soula was born. But uh,
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while they are going about their day, two things happen. Yeah.
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Person foremost they get a call from the surrogate. I just want to preface,
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nothing's wrong. The baby is fine. Who But while so Otter is
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the one who ends up taking the call. And while he's on the phone,
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there's a knock at the door and Bear opens the door and it's the
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little sister, isn't it. It's the little sister. Yes, But the
1:10:24
thing is she's not there. Because she's not there for the reasons. You
1:10:26
think, well, she kind of is. But so as it turns out,
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so this is the first time Bear meets his little sister Isabelle, and
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when he sees her, he immediately recognizes her. And when she sees him,
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she gets this look of this immense look of relief, knowing that she
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finally made it, and she breaks down in front of him and she tells
1:10:51
him that their mom, Julie McKenna, has passed away. Oh shit.
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As it turns out, she died of what is uh the doctors referred to
1:11:05
as a massive cardiac event. So she has a heart, she had a
1:11:09
hard tackle. She was at work. They knew that she had a daughter,
1:11:14
and social services were about to get We're gonna actually come for her.
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But Izzy was like, now, fuck that, and she packed her ship
1:11:20
and she somehow she managed to get a bus ticket and she made her way
1:11:26
all the way to Seafair from Idaho, and she remembered, she memorized uh
1:11:31
the address that Ty gave her and too, and she made it to the
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Green Monstrosity and finds her brother and Bear. Yeah, Bear, who was
1:11:44
beginning to freak out from the revelation that his mother is dead. I mean
1:11:46
he does there's no love lost between him and his mom. In fact,
1:11:50
he hates her fucking guts, especially after all the ship she put him through.
1:11:54
Yeah. But while he is like, of course understandably like foring out,
1:12:00
like, oh shit, my mom is dead and my little sister is
1:12:01
at my doorstep just showed up on my doorstep. In the background, he
1:12:04
can hear otters starting to freak out too, because, as it turns out,
1:12:15
they're having twins. Oh shit, yep, so they got they got
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two for a price. So now not only does he take is his little
1:12:29
sister showing there at his doorstep, but he's getting two for the price of
1:12:31
one. Oh my god. Oh well, shit twinsies whimsies yep. And
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that, Ladies and Gentleman, is where this book ends. Now, of
1:12:45
course, there's a lot more that happens in the book. There's a lot
1:12:47
more details and a few other details that I may or may not have forgotten
1:12:50
and or may or may not have excluded just for the sake of time.
1:12:54
But really I do that on purpose, people, so that way you get
1:12:59
a little you just you get the idea of what's going on in the story.
1:13:02
But if you want, if you want the details, if you want
1:13:05
the t pick up the book and read it or going audible. If you
1:13:10
have Audible, it should be on audible. Listen, give it a listen
1:13:14
yes answer, Yes, this this book series, Bear Otter in the Kid
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is a wonderful story, all right, especially if you're looking for something that's
1:13:27
uh more lgbt Q, then this is the book for you. All right?
1:13:32
Then of course they're all by TJ. Klune. Love TJ Klune.
1:13:39
Love that man. Yeah, I love Yeah, I love him patches.
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Uh. Next week as we will be talking about what the last it is
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the last book, right, book four? Yes, the last book is
1:14:00
yeah. Sorry, we're gonna be talking about the last book call called The
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Long and Winding Road. This is gonna be the book four, will be
1:14:12
the conclusion of the Bear Order and the Kid book series. And I gotta
1:14:16
tell you, when I finished this book series, I was like so CRUs
1:14:19
I was devastated. The same thing happened with The Wolf Song Green Greek Chronicles,
1:14:27
because when I finished, I was like, I can't believe it's over.
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I love these guys. I love this book so much, and I
1:14:33
love the Bear Order and the Kid books too, And it's such a it's
1:14:40
such a good book, so definitely read it and definitely catch us next time
1:14:45
when we review The Long and Winding Road, the fourth and final book in
1:14:49
the Bear Otder and the Kid series. Yes, then,