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With a child, two restaurants and enough resentment to fill the Chicago River, Sydney and Carmy realize that the love they once had may not be enough to sustain the lives they now live.
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“You know, I think we have this tendency to think of chaos as a bad thing. Like, if something’s chaotic it must be harmful, and it must be changed, or…ordered. But I think chaos itself is…natural, you know? The world around us thrives on chaos. Small changes make big differences. The butterfly effect, I guess. And, at its best, out of chaos comes creativity. I think it’s more about how we respond to the chaos that counts.”
“And how do I...we— How does anyone do that? Respond to the chaos?”
“I guess…learn to ride the wave, chef.”
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Or, the bear, seasons five and six.
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29 Nov 2025
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Sydney scoffs. “I’m. What-what is this? Did I hit my head? Is-is this like a weird sweepstakes I won to meet some chef I had a crush on when I was 17?”
Carmy smiles again, this time she can see the indents of dimples on his cheeks and it makes her stomach flip a little. “You had a crush on me?”
A sigh escapes her. “Go home. Please.”
When her back is turned toward him he’s talking again. “Your dad asked me to come talk to you.”
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emmanuel and sydney's relationship takes a hit after sheridan road does the same, so he enlists the help of her "favorite" chef carmy to break her out of her funk.
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- Part 13 of in another world it's still you
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22 Nov 2025
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“Maybe we should tell somebody?” she asked as Carmy pulled out his wallet and checked his own driver’s license, confirming their shared address.
He shook his head. “I don’t think they’d believe us, Syd. Richie didn’t. I mean, would you believe us?” He held up his wallet. Inside the photo sleeve was a small picture of the two of them holding what appeared to be a newborn Gemma.
Sydney sighed, “No.”
She tried to imagine how it would go but in every scenario telling someone that everything about their lives was fake and wrong ended with one or both of them in psychiatric treatment and Gemma, their daughter in the care of others and not her unfit, delusional parents. Sydney shifted the car into reverse and glanced at the child sleeping in her car seat. “We’ll have to figure it out ourselves.”Bookmarked by saturnreturning
22 Nov 2025
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Sydney and Carmy have drifted apart since he left, but when Natalie and Pete are killed in a car accident, something forces them back together.
(Based on the movie “Life as we know it.”)