âYuna Hollander POVâ this, âImagine youâre Yuna Hollanderâ that⌠Valid, valid. But letâs shine a glorious light on DAVID Hollander for a minute.
Imagine youâve spent most of your sonâs teen and adult life supporting the hell out of him and your wife as they jointly steer his career into the astral plane of international hockey stardom. Youâre so proud of him, but you also worry that the focus of his life may be too narrow. You gently encourage him to smell the roses - go down Youtube rabbit holes (whatever those are), take a holiday to London, maybe even date? After years of only surface-level relationships, he develops a true friend in Hayden Pike, and you breathe a sigh of relief. He shows an interest in real estate and design, and youâre delighted to encourage him.
Youâre thrilled when he gets a girlfriend after so many years alone. When they seem to break up but remain on good terms, this fuels your growing suspicion that he might be gay. Then Scott Hunter kisses his boyfriend on the ice. Shane immediately takes a call and comes back with a giddy smile on his face. Thatâs really all the confirmation you need.
You gently break this to Yuna (I love how the show changes that âwe know you pretty well, Shaneâ line from her to him, because it matches characterisation theyâve added to David as an insightful father and husband). Yuna immediately wants to talk to Shane about it & make contingency plans for how it might affect his life & career if true, because she loves her kid & wants to cover all bases ASAP, but you talk her down. âLet him come to us,â you say.
Shane tells you heâs doing a silent retreat for his time off this year, but you need to charge your phone, and itâll be good to check in on him (you always worry about him being too isolated, too lonely). So you head over only to be⌠well, astonished to see him kissing his arch-rival with an easy familiarity. Shit, shit, you should NOT be here. You panic & leave - let him come to you (Shaneâs flight response is also inherited).
Just as you and Yuna are discussing whether you should go back to the cottage, he does come over. With Rozanov. Youâre a bit shellshocked, and the whole thing is awkward as hell at first, but also⌠Rozanov looks at your son like he hung the moon, talks him down from a panic attack, and it turns out theyâve been doing this for almost ten years. The same ten years that you spent encouraging Shane to pursue happiness and live a full life. Of course it breaks your heart that he felt like he had to do it in secret, but he still did it.
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