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Regan and I sit beside her Dax got us special seats outside of his noran and I will be attending theether, but my parents were not about to miss the first one and any others they can make

I turn in to count or reames I’ve seen a conference finals loss when he ith Toronto But there’s soue experience

I wasn’t bullshitting Doht when he askedutterly ical with this team, and I can even see it in the way they skate their waruy out there is focused and deterrace in their attitudes It’s as if they’ve accepted the highly pressurized situation they are in, and they’ve decided to channel it into the y I’ve ever seen

There’s no doubt… part of that co back into the first line The h so much and while ative iy of the teaan—he see for his therapist, Nora That has, in turn, brought theether

Proof is in the fact the first line helped Dominik decide to allow Rafe Sih to join the Carolina Cold Fury in an unprecedented deal No one has ever effectuated such a trade of players on the eve of the playoffs, particularly between the top-ranked teams in both conferences All the sports news networks exploded this h Doht

And then… true to his word, ent back to bed where we did not leave until this

I nornify “soive Doh

We did extraordinarily little sleeping

“So,” Regan whispers as she leans intoto tell ht?”

We haven’t seen each other today By the tione for a shift at her contract job as a pediatric nurse Thank God Dax was gone, too That way, I didn’t have to suffer his condescending disappoint with his boss

But whereas Dax has a healthy dislike of Doan has full-blown romantic fantasies

Needing to disabuse her of theh to be heard over the music but not so much my parents, who are on her other side, can hear I even cup o directly into her ear “We had sex four tiht, and it was stellar”