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In just over a week, I will be thirty eight. I have over ten years on what the man in my dreams ever had, and not a day goes by where I don't think about that. He deserved better. He deserved more.

STAR WARS:

They're making a series about him. Did you see?

I bet you all were thinking, "Oh, good. Charlie is going to stop asking random questions about our dream lives because it's an uncomfortable and awkward topic most of the time." HA HA. No, not quite. I'm too curious for my own good and I think, eventually, all of this information will be of use to us. So here's the next topic for discussion for all you second-life dreamers out there!

What is the best part about your dream life? What is the worst?

You can answer anonymously, or not. Totally up to you.

[FINN, GRACE, DIEGO]

Hello all! Great news for you on a Thursday. The adoption papers are finalized, barring the final signatures of all relevant parties. You've always been one of us, Finn. Now we just made it legal.

I await your pleasure at the courthouse. ;)

My advice? Sign them and then have a family supper. Hell, sign them again in front of everybody. Get everyone involved. This is reason to celebrate.

FRIENDS & FAM

So I have three ties. Do I wear the blue one, the red stripey one, or the grey one?

I also need one of you to tie it for me. Or teach me how to tie it. They were always already tied before, but I was an idiot and untied them during prom prep. I looked at Youtube and I'm pretty sure I'm not going to be able to recreate any of this. So, yeah. Just throwing that out there.

I'm nervous about this. I shouldn't be nervous, right? I mean, it's not like

CHARLIE

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FRIENDS & FAMILY:

I'm cooking tonight. Tacos, since it's national taco day. Real tacos.

BYOB, and Charlie, Finn, if you want to bring any friends from school, go ahead.

I came into Dunhaven with this idea that you'd go easy on me, but as it turns out when you're one of a handful of lawyers in a DC-adjacent town and you've got one of those faces, you drum up interest. Curiosity, even. And when I say one of those faces, I just mean everybody I meet wants to feed me.

(Bake me cookies, please. I love cookies. Chocolate chip, yes?)

And since I'm still a bit of a newb, I want to hear about your plans for the Harvest Festival. I'd also like to know if you're going to let me horn in on them.

It's been a month and my assessment of college is that there's a lot of reading.

CHARLIE

You should let me take you out on a date. A nice one.

PARENTS

So these dream lives.

Do you think we're different enough from those people and their lives or are we prone to making the same decisions and mistakes as them? I don't mean the big ones that are tied to that world, you know the ones. I mean little things, like personality quirks and flaws.

Because Han and Leia It's just been on my mind and you guys are wise grown ups and all that, so I figured I'd get your take.

To all of you who are working hard and keeping up your families, your full time jobs and chasing what you want to be ... I see you. Even through the homework and laundry haze. You're doing good. Keep working. You can get it done, okay? I believe in you.

[FINN + DIEGO]

You know what you haven't mentioned to us, Finn? Family weekend at the University. I want to embarrass you in front of all your new friends.

[CHARLIE]

I wanted to see how your first semester is going. Everything shaking out like you wanted?

[MEDHI]

Hey, you.

[STAR WARS FAM]

Long time no talk. Anybody new join our ranks lately? How about a get together?

[DIEGO]

I'm going to embrace this other self. Mostly.

GROUP TEXT: Rojas fam:

-- Finn, abuelita called to tell me she's sending you a care package, because she's worried you won't eat well enough in college and she says you're too skinny.
-- This is hands-down the best way to make a lot of friends very quickly, just for the record.
-- But 100% would not blame you if you wanted to hog it all because that's what I did at your age.

Purple.

CHARLIE

I got a Solo dump. I'm kind of glad it happened now, before school started. Talk about responsible and studious.

It's time for another anonymous post, again for academic research reasons. This one is not a confessional, exactly. For this one, you will post anonymously and then other anonymous users will ask you general questions that you will then have to answer honestly. You won't be forced to answer anything that makes you uncomfortable, obviously, but if you "sign up" for the questions, please try to be open to answering them.

Thanks in advance for participating!

Best new booths to visit at Founder's Day?

[STAR WARS FAMILY]

I want you all to know that I do not trust Jyn Erso. It isn't that she is ultimately wrong or bad, but I am who I am and to be caught within her memories is an erasure that I scares won't permit. I'm Grace. And I'm going to stay Grace.

Instead of waiting for her master plan to unfold, then, I am taking matters into my own hands. If any of you want to watch Rogue One you can come over. I'll be in the living room starting at 10:00 P.

[ROJAS FAMILY & ROJAS ADJACENT]

We're all going to attend Founding Day tomorrow. Together. Do you understand me?

No anonymity this time. It's pretty public knowledge at this point that these dreams and memories are a pretty widespread issue, right? So I want to ask everyone who's been having them for help. How do you cope with a life that isn't yours but feels as much yours as your own is? The person I've dreamt about lost someone recently (recently for me, anyway, so I suppose that term is relative) and I find myself grieving the same way I would had I physically lived through it myself. How do you handle that? Has anyone else experienced loss that doesn't necessarily belong to them? I know that there's only more loss to come, thanks to being familiar with this person's story already even without the dreams and memories, and I [...] just want to know that I can face them without feeling like this when they inevitably come. Because if it feels like this now, I don't know how I'll even function through what's to come.

Anyway, thanks in advance for tuning into today's episode of Charlie Proves She's Crazy AF.

WHO: Diego and Grace Rojas, Finn Solmon
WHEN: Evening of July 22
WHERE: Their home
SUMMARY: After literally years of thinking about it, Finn asks Diego to adopt him.
WARNINGS: :')

( He was his father in all ways -- except, to be technical, legally. )

Hello, Dunhaven. I am surprising my brother by turning up unannounced except for the part where I tell all of you I'm here before I tell him or any of the family. So, hello there. I'm Mateo Rojas, Diego's elder and much more handsome brother.

Because I've decided that I want to be the burr in his side semi-permanently, I've got a little office leased in town and intend to open up my own law practice. And now that I know there are places where you play great live music, I may not ever leave.

Have a lovely Tuesday.

[ROJAS FRIENDS & FAMILY]

Surprise!

[CHARLIE]

It isn't my place to hand-wring over you but I wanted to check in.

[FINN]

What happened?

[DIEGO]

These memories/hallucinations are a zero sum game if they only make us angry or cause physical distress.

sora

sos

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WHO: Sora Hondo-Smith and Finn Solomon
WHEN: Evening of June 26
WHERE: Charlie and Sora's house
SUMMARY: Sora and Finn have a moment.
WARNINGS: None!

( 'I mean, um -- I guess I was just… you know.' )