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He let it linger and fester. This vulnerability at his side, this queer bend in the rhythm of his life. The strange lode-bearing sunbeam that Paul had become for him. John got to thinking it was romantic. That it would last because it was so absurd, and John’s life was nothing if not absurd.
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John and Paul, then and now.
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Liverpool’s Leopold and Loeb, the Nemperor, and the witty Wooler left in their wake.
A character study of sorts.
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His mother’s skin always shimmered in the light, like she was a wavering mirage in the wind and nothing more. John half believes she never really died — she was never really there in the first place. And he supposes he can't hate her for that — he's not really here either.
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“I always was sort of psychic or intuitive, always seeing things in a hallucinatory way. I always saw beyond the mask. And it’s scary when you’re a child because there’s nobody to relate to. Neither my auntie nor my friends, not anybody, could ever see it… and it’s very, very scary.” - John Lennon
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In the balmy heat of the midday sun in Jim’s garden, Paul strumming at his guitar and humming that sweet little Connie Francis number, John contemplates asking. They’ve been chatting idly about using John’s money to fund a hitchhike somewhere, John curled around his guitar with his legs folded underneath him and making quick glances to Paul’s drifting fingers so he can mirror their arrangements.
“I was thinking Madrid.”
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What John asks in '61, what John doesn't tell in '63, and what Paul finds out from Hunter Davies in '67.
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“You liked seeing me ride, did you?” John teases, plucking the cigarette from the corner of his mouth and flicking it to the ground. He stamps it out with the heel of his boot, eyes still locked on Brian. “I was prepared, you know. Ready for it. Just me in the pool shed, waiting for you.”
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September, 1964. John and Brian have some alone time in the great outdoors while resting at the Reed Pigman Ranch.
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Every once in a while Paul poured three shots of scotch and allowed himself to admit that he was in love with John Lennon. He probably shouldn't be doing it outside Ringo's wedding reception.
In 1981, The Beatles are in the same room for the first time in ten years. But it's not the happy reunion fans have been dreaming of.
Prompt fill for the Beatles Kink Meme.
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For the first time in years that he’s been entirely sober, John stops to think that perhaps it had all been a mistake. A fluke. That it could very well have been the drugs frying his brain, crossing some wires for him, and laying off them for good just might fix him.
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He’d learned that nobody could make Paul do anything he didn’t will, not even the magic of shrines and frenzied, half-formed desires.
Confined in the Tokyo Hilton, John battles existential dread, bad luck and the world's most stubborn hard-on. 1966 world tour.
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In 1961, John Lennon and Paul McCartney left abruptly on a trip to Spain, via France.
In 1967, they finally come home to face the consequences.
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