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  1. Sep 2023
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    1. "Maybe. I might just live out of the car for awhile." Ed snorts and it makes Stede smile. They both know he wouldn’t make it two days. "Maybe I'll turn it into a boat, take to the sea."This is a familiar conversation, one they used to have all the time, whispered late into the night. One that they haven't had as often since they've gotten older.Ed picks up the thread like they've never let it drop. "Why stop at a boat? Strap a rocket to it and leave the planet."

      I am obsessed with this little callback to their first conversation. Feels so bittersweet in that it's a symbol of their first ever phone call, but there's a sadness to the acknowledgement that everything is changing now that they're getting older. The space and the ocean are not the place of their wild childhood fantasies of curiosity and heroism. They become escape. An escape from a life that is beating the curiosity and heroism out of them. However, this is also so beautiful and lovely because it shows how this link between them, this bond and connection, has been there since their first ever phone conversation, and it will stay with them even as life throws misery and rejection at them. Lovely.