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    In the intake room, he says to the nurse, “I mean I work in a kitchen for chrissake. I eat all the goddamn time.”

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    10 Mar 2026

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    It had always been about his fucked-up family. It had always been about Mikey.

    AU where Carmy is eleven when Donna drives the car through the living room.

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    10 Mar 2026

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    Carmy didn't speak until he was five.

    He only learned how because Sugar begged for it, while Michael kept telling him bedtime stories. Between his sister's desperation and his brother's loneliness, he learned how to function in a way that got his mother less angry.

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    06 Mar 2026

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    “Okay cool, just like… have you been doing okay lately? Like before the whole seizure thing?”

    “I uh,” He rubs a hand across his face, “I’ve-I’ve been better… I’ve been a lot better. Thought I was hiding it.”

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    Carmy tries to be better, but this ends up being much harder than he anticipated. And also he has a seizure. Can’t forget that bit.

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    05 Mar 2026

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    "New York was not a good time," Carmy says. "I had this boss who was- was always criticising, always telling you that you’re not good enough, and everyone in that kitchen was so fucking scared of him.”

    “Were you?” Richie asks slowly. His tongue feels too heavy for his mouth all of a sudden. “Scared of him?”

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    Or: A month after the opening, Carmy's old boss in New York gives an interview about him. Carmy is not coping well.

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    05 Mar 2026