UK holds off joining Trump's Board of Peace over Putin concerns
22 January 2026 11:48 am![[syndicated profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/feed.png){kind=small}
bbcnewsworld_feedForeign Secretary Yvette Cooper says the Russian president has shown no commitment to peace in Ukraine.
bbcnewsworld_feedJapan suspends world's largest nuclear plant hours after restart
22 January 2026 01:13 pmbbcnewsworld_feedThe operator says reactor remains "stable" and has no "radioactive impact outside".
Ex-intelligence officer in Austria's biggest spy trial for years
22 January 2026 10:29 ambbcnewsworld_feedEgisto Ott, 63, denies charges of handing over information to Russian agents.
Two dead and several missing in New Zealand landslides
22 January 2026 09:14 ambbcnewsworld_feedHeavy rains have ravaged the country's North Island, with a minister comparing it to a "war zone".
South African police not yet able to defeat gangs, minister says
22 January 2026 08:23 ambbcnewsworld_feedPolice Minister Firoz Cachalia says organised crime is growing more complex, requiring new strategies.
Slashed incomes and gamers go cold turkey: the fallout from Uganda's internet shutdown
22 January 2026 04:14 ambbcnewsworld_feedThe internet was shut during the general election, leaving many people without any income - or entertainment.
Trump ratcheted up the Greenland rhetoric - but has he been talked down?
22 January 2026 01:52 ambbcnewsworld_feedDespite talk of a deal over Greenland, it will be hard for US allies to return to business as usual, writes the BBC’s diplomatic correspondent.
Battling the Berm Before Work
22 January 2026 05:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
soemandWoke up to the unmistakable grind of the plow pushing a fresh berm across the end of the driveway. The Apple weather app is calling it a “wintry mix,” but really it’s just wet, heavy snow with a splash of rain—about three to four inches of it. The kind that clings to everything and dares you to ignore it.
So before work, the plan is to fire up the snowblower and clear it out. If I don’t, this whole mess is going to freeze into a solid sheet of ice, and that’s a battle I’m not interested in fighting later.
So before work, the plan is to fire up the snowblower and clear it out. If I don’t, this whole mess is going to freeze into a solid sheet of ice, and that’s a battle I’m not interested in fighting later.
3 Sentence Ficathon, part three (all B5 fixit edition)
21 January 2026 11:44 pmsholio9. More scenes from a Babylon 5 fixit AU.
I ended up doing a number of additional prompt fills from the same universe as this fill (#4 in the previous post, major series spoilers).
( 1000 words or so of fixit snippets from the same post-canon AU )
10. And while I'm keeping the spoiler stuff confined to its own post, another B5 spoiler fixit AU (same characters) based off "War Without End."
( Under this cut here )
I ended up doing a number of additional prompt fills from the same universe as this fill (#4 in the previous post, major series spoilers).
( 1000 words or so of fixit snippets from the same post-canon AU )
10. And while I'm keeping the spoiler stuff confined to its own post, another B5 spoiler fixit AU (same characters) based off "War Without End."
( Under this cut here )
Just One Thing (22 January 2026)
22 January 2026 08:11 amnanila posting in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
awesomeersIt's challenge time!
Comment with Just One Thing you've accomplished in the last 24 hours or so. It doesn't have to be a hard thing, or even a thing that you think is particularly awesome. Just a thing that you did.
Feel free to share more than one thing if you're feeling particularly accomplished! Extra credit: find someone in the comments and give them props for what they achieved!
Nothing is too big, too small, too strange or too cryptic. And in case you'd rather do this in private, anonymous comments are screened. I will only unscreen if you ask me to.
Go!
Comment with Just One Thing you've accomplished in the last 24 hours or so. It doesn't have to be a hard thing, or even a thing that you think is particularly awesome. Just a thing that you did.
Feel free to share more than one thing if you're feeling particularly accomplished! Extra credit: find someone in the comments and give them props for what they achieved!
Nothing is too big, too small, too strange or too cryptic. And in case you'd rather do this in private, anonymous comments are screened. I will only unscreen if you ask me to.
Go!
reading Wednesday
21 January 2026 11:21 pmboxofdelightsThe Three Ws are:
1. What are you currently reading?
I'm in the middle of The Great Transition, Nick Fuller Googins, for solarpunk book club. The transition is to a sustainable way of living. There's a lot of horror in the immediate past, and a lot of life that is just gone forever. The two viewpoint characters are a teenage girl and her father. Her father, who did heroic work during the crisis, when he was a teenager, wants to focus on how much better things are now, and how we are all working together to make them even better. Her mother, who did different kinds of heroic work, says no, we can't relax: the people who caused and profited from the crisis still have too much money and power, and they are working to turn us back to the exploitive and destructive path. We have to stop them.
I'm enjoying it, except that the teenage girl has an (occasionally too-vividly described) eating disorder.
2. What did you recently finish reading?
The Correspondent, by Virginia Evans, for Tawanda book group. Much better than I was expecting.
Cat's Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut, for classics book group. Last read when I was a teenager, when all that sexism and racism was just normal.
Algorithms of Oppression, by Saffiya Noble, for Slow Book Club. This was a hard read, in both subject matter and writing style, so it was good to have the book club to talk it over with, a few chapters at a time.
A Sorceress Comes to Call, by T. Kingfisher, for SF book group. A delight.
3. What do you think you’ll read next?
The Last Hour Between Worlds, by Melissa Caruso, for SF book group. If I can find it.
1. What are you currently reading?
I'm in the middle of The Great Transition, Nick Fuller Googins, for solarpunk book club. The transition is to a sustainable way of living. There's a lot of horror in the immediate past, and a lot of life that is just gone forever. The two viewpoint characters are a teenage girl and her father. Her father, who did heroic work during the crisis, when he was a teenager, wants to focus on how much better things are now, and how we are all working together to make them even better. Her mother, who did different kinds of heroic work, says no, we can't relax: the people who caused and profited from the crisis still have too much money and power, and they are working to turn us back to the exploitive and destructive path. We have to stop them.
I'm enjoying it, except that the teenage girl has an (occasionally too-vividly described) eating disorder.
2. What did you recently finish reading?
The Correspondent, by Virginia Evans, for Tawanda book group. Much better than I was expecting.
Cat's Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut, for classics book group. Last read when I was a teenager, when all that sexism and racism was just normal.
Algorithms of Oppression, by Saffiya Noble, for Slow Book Club. This was a hard read, in both subject matter and writing style, so it was good to have the book club to talk it over with, a few chapters at a time.
A Sorceress Comes to Call, by T. Kingfisher, for SF book group. A delight.
3. What do you think you’ll read next?
The Last Hour Between Worlds, by Melissa Caruso, for SF book group. If I can find it.
Three dead in shooting in Australia's New South Wales
22 January 2026 11:38 ambbcnewsworld_feedResidents have been told to stay indoors and avoid the area of the shooting.
Seven more countries agree to join Trump's Board of Peace
21 January 2026 08:55 pmbbcnewsworld_feedSeven Muslim-majority countries accept an invitation to Trump's new organisation, while Russia's Putin says he's considering joining.
Slashed incomes and gamers go cold turkey: the fallout from Uganda's internet shutdown
22 January 2026 04:14 ambbcnewsworld_feedThe internet was shut during the general election, leaving many people without any income - or entertainment.
Israeli strike in Gaza kills three journalists, first responders say
21 January 2026 08:44 pmbbcnewsworld_feedAnother eight Palestinians were killed by Israeli artillery and gunfire across Gaza on Wednesday, according to medics.
Footage captures moment NZ landslide starts in Mount Maunganui
22 January 2026 02:56 ambbcnewsworld_feedAn Australian tourist describes seeing one of the landslides behind him and running from it.
Watch: Russian cosmonaut captures stunning aurora from space
22 January 2026 01:02 ambbcnewsworld_feedCosmonaut Sergey Kud-Sverchkov captured the lights over Earth during one of the largest solar storms in more than 20 years.
Watch: How was Trump's Davos speech received?
21 January 2026 05:22 pmbbcnewsworld_feedThe BBC's Faisal Islam was in the room when President Trump told his audience that he would not use force in Greenland, but also launched a long argument for why the US should own it.
Best of '25: Reminder
22 January 2026 12:58 amrizbef posting in bestof_icons
ICON NOMINATIONS ARE NOW CLOSED!
All icons will now be assembled for voting! Voting will remain open until five days after the last poll has been posted. Tie-breakers will follow if necessary.
The ABC Challenge (But Make It Queer)
21 January 2026 10:15 pmtjs_whatnotHere is my first attempt to making a graphic of a Storygraph Challenge. I completed 3 challenges this year (A-Z Challenge, Read Queer All Year and the Trans Rights Readathon), but making this one exhausted me, so until I find a better way, this will be it for graphics. Maybe one day Storygraph will make some shiny graphics for their challenges, I mean, it's right there in their title, yes?
( A-Z Under Here )
Community Thursdays
22 January 2026 12:15 amysabetwordsmithThis year I'm doing Community Thursdays. Some of my activity will involve maintaining communities I run, and my favorites. Some will involve checking my list of subscriptions and posting in lower-traffic ones. Today I have interacted with the following communities...
* Posted "How to Restart When You've Fallen Off Your Goals" ingoals_on_dw.
* Continued checking and responding to Wishlist posts insnowflake_challenge. See my Granting Wishes post.
* Made my 3 nominations for the Rose and Bay Awards: Other Project incrowdfunding. Nominations are still open through January, so if you haven't made yours yet, we could sure use more! Boost your favorite crowdfunded projects and patrons from 2025.
* Posted "How to Restart When You've Fallen Off Your Goals" in
goals_on_dw. * Continued checking and responding to Wishlist posts in
snowflake_challenge. See my Granting Wishes post.* Made my 3 nominations for the Rose and Bay Awards: Other Project in
crowdfunding. Nominations are still open through January, so if you haven't made yours yet, we could sure use more! Boost your favorite crowdfunded projects and patrons from 2025.
Links: Minnesota general strike, and how to help
21 January 2026 10:04 pmsoniaThere is a general strike called for Friday January 23 in Minnesota. Stay home from work if it feels right, and definitely don't cross any picket lines, including the electronic ones of shopping at big corporations like Amazon, etc. (if you can avoid it).
From my union:
"This is a verified page fundraising support for the Minneapolis Regional Labor Federation, AFL-CIO and Working Partnerships' 2026 rapid response effort to meet the needs of impacted union members, worker center members, and their families..."
https://workingpartnerships.betterworld.org/campaigns/support-impacted-union-families
Here is how you can help:
Posts bynaomikritzer
How to help if you are outside Minnesota.
She covers a variety of topics, including how to start preparing for if and when this shit comes to your home state, and the suggestion to talk About immigration, and make it clear you think it’s GOOD.
If you are in Minnesota.
From my union:
"This is a verified page fundraising support for the Minneapolis Regional Labor Federation, AFL-CIO and Working Partnerships' 2026 rapid response effort to meet the needs of impacted union members, worker center members, and their families..."
https://workingpartnerships.betterworld.org/campaigns/support-impacted-union-families
Here is how you can help:
Posts by
naomikritzerHow to help if you are outside Minnesota.
She covers a variety of topics, including how to start preparing for if and when this shit comes to your home state, and the suggestion to talk About immigration, and make it clear you think it’s GOOD.
If you are in Minnesota.
Missing missing reasons!
22 January 2026 01:07 amconuly posting in agonyauntDear Annie: I'm just heartbroken. My son moved out last year, and he never talked to me about anything before he moved. We were so close, and we always talked. But all of a sudden, he packed up and moved out with no explanation. He had met someone a year prior to that. I met her for a second, and that was it. I do know where he is living but he doesn't know that I know. He has a new baby boy; I don't even know his name, yet he is my grandson. I know that he has two stepdaughters, but I don't know their names either.
I kept trying to call him but get no response. Now his phone is disconnected. I'm so lost and confused as well as upset. I miss him dearly.
He is my only child. He did a great job in school and had his own business after he graduated from high school. I am trying so hard to go on with my life, but it's so hard not knowing how he is, or whether he is safe, healthy and happy. He was a very good kid, and now he's a man. I just hope and pray that he will come around some day. -- Mom Is Lost
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I kept trying to call him but get no response. Now his phone is disconnected. I'm so lost and confused as well as upset. I miss him dearly.
He is my only child. He did a great job in school and had his own business after he graduated from high school. I am trying so hard to go on with my life, but it's so hard not knowing how he is, or whether he is safe, healthy and happy. He was a very good kid, and now he's a man. I just hope and pray that he will come around some day. -- Mom Is Lost
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music collection review, post 2
21 January 2026 09:45 pmthedarlingoneI have over 2100 music files in my VLC. Some of them are duplicates, but given that I got through significantly less than 20 in the previous post, we're going to be here a while. This is why I've never gotten all the way through reviewing my music collection.
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I think I'm going to call it for the night, looking down the list isn't a ton of stuff I'm excited about for a ways and my earbuds are going to die soon. We're down to about 116 hours left, that's progress of a sort? Jesus. How do I have so much music.
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I think I'm going to call it for the night, looking down the list isn't a ton of stuff I'm excited about for a ways and my earbuds are going to die soon. We're down to about 116 hours left, that's progress of a sort? Jesus. How do I have so much music.
Snow Buries Kamchatka
22 January 2026 05:01 amearthobservatory_iod_feed
January 17, 2026
It has been an eventful few months for the Northern Hemisphere atmosphere. An unusually early sudden stratospheric warming episode in late November appears to have factored into a weakened and distorted polar vortex at times in December, likely causing extra waviness in the polar jet stream. This helped fuel extensive intrusions of frigid air into the mid-latitudes, contributing to cold snaps in North America, Europe, and Asia, and priming the atmosphere for disruptive winter storms in January.
Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula has been among the areas hit hard by cold and snowy weather in December and January. More than 2 meters (7 feet) of snow fell in the first two weeks of January, following 3.7 meters in December, according to news reports. Together, these totals make it one of the snowiest periods the peninsula has seen since the 1970s, according to Kamchatka’s Hydrometeorology Center. The onslaught brought Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, the regional capital, to a standstill, with reports of large snowdrifts burying cars and blocking access to buildings and infrastructure.
This image, acquired by the MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) instrument on NASA’s Aqua satellite, shows fresh snow blanketing the peninsula’s rugged terrain on January 17, 2026. Several circular, snow-covered volcanic peaks are visible across the peninsula, one of the most volcanically active areas in the world. Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, home to more than 160,000 people, sits along Avacha Bay—a deep, sheltered bay formed by a combination of tectonic, volcanic, and glacial activity.
NASA Earth Observatory image by Lauren Dauphin, using MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE and GIBS/Worldview. Story by Adam Voiland.
References & Resources
- AccuWeather (2026, January 20) Snow buries Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula, but don’t believe the AI videos. Accessed January 21, 2026.
- Cohen, J. (2026, January 19) Arctic Oscillation and Polar Vortex Blog. Accessed January 21, 2026.
- Manney, G. L., et al. (2022) What’s in a name? On the use and significance of the term “polar vortex.” Geophysical Research Letters, 49, e2021GL097617.
- The Moscow Times (2026, January 19) Kamchatka Struggles to Get Back on Its Feet a Week After Winter Storms Bury Peninsula. Accessed January 21, 2026.
- NASA (2024, January 30) Sudden Stratospheric Warming Event. Accessed January 21, 2026.
- Reuters (2026, January 21) Russia’s Far East Buried in Snow. Accessed January 21, 2026.
- UPI (2026, January 20) Snow buries Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula. Accessed January 21, 2026.
- The Watchers (2026, January 18) State of Emergency declared for Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky after extreme snow kills 2, Russia. Accessed January 21, 2026.
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disheveled
22 January 2026 12:00 ammerriamwebster_feedMerriam-Webster's Word of the Day for January 22, 2026 is:
disheveled • \dih-SHEV-uld\ • adjective
A disheveled person or thing is not neat or tidy.
// His wrinkled suit gave him a disheveled appearance.
Examples:
“My mother is waking up. ... She dresses quickly. Her oblong, Scots-Irish face may be too idiosyncratic for the screen anyway, the hollow cheekbones and sharp eyes, the straw-blond hair worn in a low-slung and slightly disheveled beehive.” — Matthew Specktor, The Golden Hour: A Story of Family and Power in Hollywood, 2025
Did you know?
These days, the adjective disheveled is used to describe almost anything or anyone marked by disorder or disarray. Rumpled clothes, for example, often contribute to a disheveled appearance, as in Colson Whitehead’s novel Crook Manifesto, when the comedian Roscoe Pope walks onstage “disheveled, in wrinkled green corduroy pants.” Apartments, desks, bedsheets, you name it—all can be disheveled when not at their neatest and tidiest. Hair, however, is the most common noun to which disheveled is applied (along with hairdo terms like bun and beard), a fact that makes etymological sense. Disheveled comes from the Middle English adjective discheveled, meaning “bareheaded” or “with disordered hair.” That word is a partial translation of the Anglo-French word deschevelé, a combination of the prefix des- (“dis-“) and chevoil, meaning “hair.”
Blaaaargh
21 January 2026 11:41 pmsoc_puppetI have run completely out of brain to reply to people this week. I'm going to try and jump-start my reply-inator tomorrow, but we'll see how it goes.
(no subject)
22 January 2026 12:11 amconuly posting in agonyauntDEAR ABBY: Our 24-year-old daughter is getting married in 10 months. My wife is invited to the wedding, but I am not, and I am furious. The groom's family is paying for the trip, but they say I am not invited "for financial reasons."
I don't have a great relationship with my daughter. But that isn't the point. I told my wife that if the roles were reversed and she was excluded, I would not go. This may be a deal-breaker for me. It's apparent that our marriage doesn't mean as much to my wife as it does to me. What are your thoughts? -- ELIMINATED IN TEXAS
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I don't have a great relationship with my daughter. But that isn't the point. I told my wife that if the roles were reversed and she was excluded, I would not go. This may be a deal-breaker for me. It's apparent that our marriage doesn't mean as much to my wife as it does to me. What are your thoughts? -- ELIMINATED IN TEXAS
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Superpowers
21 January 2026 10:49 pmysabetwordsmithIn this case, gizmology and super-intellect. I went to high school with guys like this.
[#288 | Inconveniences] Challenge Post
21 January 2026 11:48 pmfanweeklymod posting in fandomweekly| Challenge 288: INCONVENIENCES |
Sometimes it’s the little things that really get you. The potted plant you could have sworn was out of the cat’s reach – except apparently it wasn’t. The lunch you were definitely going to pack, until you ran out of time. Someone needs to put gas in the car, and you have a meeting all morning, and there’s a horde of alien locusts on Main Street again so you’re going to have to work around that, too. It may or may not be anybody’s fault, exactly – except the alien locusts – but it sure is inconvenient! Write a story about inconveniences. If your submission features cats (alien cat-ish things count), it will earn an extra point to be tallied in voting! |
| Challenge ends Monday, January 26 at 9:00PM EST. • Post submissions as new entries using the template in the profile • Tag this week's entries as: [#] submission, 288 – inconveniences • If you have questions about this challenge, please ask them here |
[#287 | Hot Water] Results Post
21 January 2026 11:47 pmfanweeklymod posting in fandomweeklyHere are this week's votes tallied, and below the cut are our winners for Challenge #287 – Hot Water!
( This week's finalists are... )
Total Challenge Words Written: 4165
Congratulations to all this week's participants, and thank you to everyone who took the time to cast their votes!autobotscoutriella will be making this week’s banners, so keep an eye out for those.
You may now post your Challenge 287 entries to any additional communities, blogs, archives or sites as you'd like! We also have a FandomWeekly AO3 Collection if you'd like to add your stories there.
( This week's finalists are... )
Total Challenge Words Written: 4165
Congratulations to all this week's participants, and thank you to everyone who took the time to cast their votes!
autobotscoutriella will be making this week’s banners, so keep an eye out for those.You may now post your Challenge 287 entries to any additional communities, blogs, archives or sites as you'd like! We also have a FandomWeekly AO3 Collection if you'd like to add your stories there.
Poem: "A Scarf of Stars"
21 January 2026 10:29 pmysabetwordsmithThis poem was written outside the regular prompt calls. It fills "The Milky Way" square in my 1-1-25 card for the Public Domain Day Bingo fest. It has been sponsored by a pool with fuzzyred.
"A Scarf of Stars"
In winter,
on a moonless night,
the Milky Way shimmers
like a scarf of stars
wound around
night's black neck.
fuzzyred."A Scarf of Stars"
In winter,
on a moonless night,
the Milky Way shimmers
like a scarf of stars
wound around
night's black neck.
January Talking Meme - Dream place to live?
21 January 2026 11:25 pmaurumcalendulaJanuary 21 - 'Dream place to live?' for corvidology:
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Art
21 January 2026 09:53 pmysabetwordsmithpattrose made fanart for Love Is For Children as part of the snowflake_challenge. :D ( Read more... )
wednesday books, in which women guide the plot
21 January 2026 09:33 pmlandofnowhereThe Rivals, Richard Sheridan. Readaloud (actually last week, but I forgot to write it up then). Sheridan's plays are good fun and hold up quite well. I enjoyed reading the part of the impractically romantic and melodramatic novel-reading Lydia Languish, as well as the view that the book gives on young ladies' novel-reading habits of the time.
Chroniques du pays des mères, Élisabeth Vonarburg. New French-language reading project! (Haven't had one of those for a while.) This is part of a reading group where we're doing a few chapters a week, so you'll see more posts about this. So far we have interesting post-apocalyptic future worldbuilding, introduced from the point of view of an appealing child character (along with some adult POV to provide more context).
Chroniques du pays des mères, Élisabeth Vonarburg. New French-language reading project! (Haven't had one of those for a while.) This is part of a reading group where we're doing a few chapters a week, so you'll see more posts about this. So far we have interesting post-apocalyptic future worldbuilding, introduced from the point of view of an appealing child character (along with some adult POV to provide more context).
3 Sentence Ficathon fill: Miami Vice
21 January 2026 09:58 pmmxcatmoonHere is one of the fills I wrote for threesentenceficathon. It got such a lovely response, I decided to share it here first, although I'll be posting more later.
For the prompt: any, any, "Strange, the way it felt like home – to wander through the dark, alone."
DARK AND LIGHT
The night was a familiar companion, dark and comforting, like the only home he’d ever known, but at the same time empty and cold now that he’d let the only light in his life walk away.
Sleep was elusive as always, fractured by nightmares of the worst times and taunting visions of what might have been, still, the 3:00 am knock at the door was as startling as a gunshot… especially since he felt who was on the other side with every fiber of his being.
When Sonny opened the door, Rico stood there with a bag slung over one shoulder and a sheepish but hopeful expression on his face; underneath that, though, was the echo of the same desperation, loneliness, and love that had swamped Sonny ever since they’d said goodbye… he let the light in.
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threesentenceficathon. It got such a lovely response, I decided to share it here first, although I'll be posting more later. For the prompt: any, any, "Strange, the way it felt like home – to wander through the dark, alone."
DARK AND LIGHT
The night was a familiar companion, dark and comforting, like the only home he’d ever known, but at the same time empty and cold now that he’d let the only light in his life walk away.
Sleep was elusive as always, fractured by nightmares of the worst times and taunting visions of what might have been, still, the 3:00 am knock at the door was as startling as a gunshot… especially since he felt who was on the other side with every fiber of his being.
When Sonny opened the door, Rico stood there with a bag slung over one shoulder and a sheepish but hopeful expression on his face; underneath that, though, was the echo of the same desperation, loneliness, and love that had swamped Sonny ever since they’d said goodbye… he let the light in.
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