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Yom Kippur fell on a Thursday, not quite a month after what was arguably the third-worst day of Robby's life.
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25 Nov 2025
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It’s the spring of ‘97 when Michael Robinavitch is dragged into a gay bar for the very first time.
When he meets Jack Abbot there, the two of them are on the cusp of radically different futures: Robby is about to begin his residency, and Jack is leaving for the army. They know better than to get attached - know the timing is wrong, the goodbye inevitable - but something tender takes root anyway. Through every deployment, Jack thinks of Robby more than he ought to; through every failed relationship, Robby wonders about what might've been.
Years later, when their paths cross again at PTMC, the past resurfaces — and though they’re older, more jaded, and scarred in different ways, they find themselves pulled towards everything they left unfinished.
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14 Nov 2025
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In 2024, the Pittsburgh Penguins, headed up by Coach Robby Robinavitch, select Dennis Whitaker first overall in the NHL draft.
In 1986, two generational talents, both with the ambitions of nations on their backs, meet for the first time at the 1986 World Juniors.
What follows is history.
In which: sports are political, health is political, and everything is political except for politics, which is about sports.
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09 Feb 2026
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“Dr. Abbot, are you asking me what I’m wearing?” Robby asked, feigning shock. Jack bit his lip and closed his eyes for a moment. What a gift it was to catch this man with his guard down, with his voice low and warm like caramel sauce on apple pie. “Are you using a line on me?”
Jack finds himself on the roof again.
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09 Jan 2026
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Darnell nodded, glancing over Robby like he was trying to place him in the hierarchy of important to ignorable and it could go either way. "What's this?"
"MSF FNG," Jack shot back. Whatever that meant, he sounded amused.
Darnell scoffed and looked to Robby, expression going decidedly unimpressed. "Oh, yeah? You here to find yourself? Have an adventure? Do something hard?" he asked, each question more mocking than the last.
And there was that question again, like it was haunting Robby. He stifled his instinct to bite back and kept it simple: "I'm here to help."
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22 Dec 2025