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%title Limerent Object (WT)
:short-story:fiction:sawtooth:furry:
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For RAWR, a [prequel ](discernment )
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### Brief outline
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* [o] The slow formation of a crush
* [o] Falling for anyone who's the slightest bit nice to you
* [o] Intolerable limerence
* [o] Limerence as unwanted emotional attraction
* [o] pining
* [o] dreaming about just being close, casual affection, etc
* [o] Not wanting to talk about it b/c afraid of coercion
* [o] Just try to be the best person you can be for them
* [.] Except that just makes it all the more intense
* [ ] Crisis point and denouement
* [ ] Bounce off each other at some point and the limerence starts to fade
* [ ] Picture what would have happened had they gotten together.
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Told in the form of journal entries after long online conversations, complete with snippets
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Goal: 40-50k words
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(why leave seminary: with church heading toward tending only to the members of the church, Dee felt as though he was leaving behind large swaths of people)
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(why the sense of duty and control: old-fashioned family of blue-collar coyotes - domestic animals being royalty, remember - pushed hard to lift him up)
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Epigraph: εκαρδίωσας ημάς ενί από οφθαλμών σ ο υ σ ο υ
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### Characters
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* Dewí "Dee" Kimana
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* Coyote guy
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* Psychologist
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* Raised very religious
* Has a crush on...
* Kay
* Coyote gal
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* Music grad student at UI Boise
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* Transferred after a year, met in the last few weeks of shared class
* Not religious, and the thing that they bounce off each other on down the line is her refusal to not demonize religion
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* Jeremy
* Dee's therapist
* Encourages Dee to start journaling as a way to work through these new emotions
* Rev. Dr. Borenson
* Saint Bernard
* Dee's old advisor at St John's university
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## Story
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* [O] Act I
* [O] [Starting to journal ](10 )
* [O] [Liminal spaces and history ](20 )
* [O] [A sudden memory ](21 )
* [O] [Early crush ](30 )
* [O] [Lunch 1 with Kay ](31 )
* [O] [A dream ](40 )
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* [o] Act II
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* [o] [Leaving seminary vs liking Kay ](50 )
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* [o] [Lunch 2 with Kay ](51 )
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* [o] [Talking with god part 1 ](52 )
* [ ] [Talking with god part 2 ](53 )
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* [ ] [Visiting Kay part 1 ](54 )
* [ ] [Visiting Kay part 2 ](55 )
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* [o] [Dee chickens out ](60 )
* [o] [Confession ](61 )
* [o] [Projection ](70 )
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* [o] [Egodystonic attraction ](71 )
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* [ ] [Lunch 3 with Kay ](72 )
* [.] Act III
* [ ] [Calling Borenson ](80 )
* [ ] [Talking with God ](86 )
* [ ]
* [.] [The conversation ](90 )
* [ ] Conclusion
* [ ] What would have happened
* [ ] Talking with God again
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### Todo
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* [.] Include more Job/Ecclesiastes-type thoughts
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* [ ] Quote scripture?
* [ ] Integrate prequel in Dee's words
* [ ] Flesh out between current chapters.
* [ ] Takes place around July 14, feast of St Kateri Tekakwitha
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* [ ] Make Dee's qualms about the church more in line with Discernment and less about doctrine of good works (because that's actually totally the catholics' thing)
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* [ ] A few subplots!
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