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  1. Public Bookmark 16

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    1919

    Darry’s finally home from his time in the Great War, but life doesn’t look like it used to for the Curtis brothers and their friends in the North End of Boston.

    The Spanish Flu stole their loved ones and left Pony and Johnny with lingering ailments. Darry’s suffering from the aftereffects of a war that killed his friends and left him traumatized, hardly able to work under the stress. Soda’s torn between his brothers in what seems like a constant battle at home. Two-Bit, Steve, and Dally are doing what they can to try and keep their friends afloat after what’s clearly been the worst year of their lives.

    Life’s not all bad with their lives on the harbor—they still have each other, after all.

    But even that safety is threatened when the molasses tank looming over Boston bursts, flooding the city and taking lives with it.

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    The Curtis gang in the 1919 Great Molasses Flood.

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    16 Jul 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 25

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    The church basement smells like instant coffee and grief, and Darry Curtis is standing at the top of the stairs holding his baby sister like a shield.

    She's wearing a dress that cost seventy-five cents at a thrift store and took a week to restore. Soda did her hair. She's perfect. She's ridiculous. She's the only thing keeping the three of them from coming apart at the seams.

    Five months since the funeral. Five months of checking locks three times and reaching for coffee cups that aren't there anymore. Five months of learning that love, in the aftermath, doesn't look heroic—it looks like folding chairs and macaroni salad and letting strangers hold what you can't bear to put down.

    Or: the Curtis brothers take Pone to her first church social.
    Nothing happens.
    Everything happens.

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    16 Jul 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 34

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    The lives of the Curtis brothers are turned upside down when someone from Dally's past appears in their lives one day. Angry, hungry for revenge, and blinded by grief, he kidnaps Sodapop and Ponyboy Curtis.

    Soon enough, the gang learns that they know even less about Dallas Winston than they thought.

    Darry is prepared to tear Tulsa apart if it means finding his brothers, but will he find them before it's too late? Or will the gang once again have to attend two funerals in the same week?

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    16 Jul 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 4

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    Returning for spring break, Ponyboy discovers that Darry's changed a lot in the time he's been gone. It leaves him feeling uneasy, but he doesn't know why.

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    16 Jul 2026

  5. Public Bookmark *

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    Ponyboy Curtis is not doing well.

    He’s has always been quiet, but ever since it happened, he’s withdrawn even more. His brothers are doing their best, but sometimes it feels like they’re watching him slip away. With college on the horizon and the weight of unspoken fears hanging between them, Ponyboy struggles to hold on to the pieces of his life. His friends are there, trying to help, but healing isn't something Ponyboy knows how to do.

    But he’s gonna try his damn hardest to figure it out.

    Or, In the summer before senior year, Ponyboy tried to kill himself. Now, it’s a year later—the summer before his freshman year in college and things need to change before he leaves. It doesn’t help that Randy is out for Johnny and Ponyboy even years after Bobs death. The only question is, can he get better? And does he want to?

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    23 Jun 2026