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They are quite explicitly attracted to each other in a Puppy Love sort of way.
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* ButNotTooGay: Jamie and Jason are stated to be more than just friends, and the epilogue implies they are a couple after they grow up.
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* PuppyLove: Jamie and Jason's friendship slowly grows romantic undertones, though this isn't made clear until the final chapter.
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* ShipTease: Jamie and Jason are stated to be more than just friends, and the epilogue implies they are a couple after they grow up.
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* ParentalIncest: Jamie was sexually abused/raped by his father, to the point that he elected to run away. [[spoiler:When the boy meets him again at the climax of the story, his father almost rapes him to death]].
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* PervertDad: Jamie was sexually abused/raped by his father, to the point that he elected to run away. [[spoiler:When the boy meets him again at the climax of the story, his father almost rapes him to death]].
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* StraightGay:
** Graham in the original Nifty version of the story is gay but acts like an average old businessman throughout most.
** Jason is gay or at least queer given how he develops a crush on Jamie, the latter of which eventually reciprocates, and he's your average teenage boy into video games, fishing, and botany.
** Graham in the original Nifty version of the story is gay but acts like an average old businessman throughout most.
** Jason is gay or at least queer given how he develops a crush on Jamie, the latter of which eventually reciprocates, and he's your average teenage boy into video games, fishing, and botany.
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* ArchnemesisDad: While his mother didn't help, most of the abuse Jamie suffered from at home (including whipping, rape, belting etc.) was at the hands of his father who [[spoiler:almost kills him during the climax of the story]].
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* ArchnemesisDad: While his mother didn't help, in fact she's just as bad given how she was complicit in the emotional abuse and willingly ''filmed'' Jamie's rape, most of the abuse Jamie suffered from at home (including whipping, rape, belting etc.) was at the hands of his father who [[spoiler:almost kills him during the climax of the story]].
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''Can You Spare a Quarter?'' is a WebNovel about a 12-year old boy named Jamie. He has run away from his AbusiveParents and is now living on the streets, feeding himself through theft, begging and prostitution. He meets a man named Graham, a negotiator for a computer company and close to retirement, who decides to take the kid in. After a few weeks and encounters - some good and some not so good - the man obtains legal guardianship for the boy and eventually adopts him.
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''Can You Spare a Quarter?'' is a drama WebNovel about a 12-year old boy named Jamie. He has run away from his AbusiveParents and is now living on the streets, feeding himself through theft, begging and prostitution. He meets a man named Graham, a negotiator for a computer company and close to retirement, who decides to take the kid in. After a few weeks and encounters - some good and some not so good - the man obtains legal guardianship for the boy and eventually adopts him.
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* CastFullOfGay: In the original Nifty version of the story, deuteragonist Graham is gay, though he never makes a big deal out of it. In both versions, the story's protagonist Jamie is queer, made clear in the epilogue where he kisses and eventually gets into a relationship with his best friend Jason.
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* CastFullOfGay: In the original Nifty version of the story, deuteragonist Graham is gay, though he never makes a big deal out of it. it and it only really comes into play when he has trouble trying to adopt Jamie. In both versions, the story's protagonist Jamie is queer, which made clear in the epilogue where he kisses and eventually gets into a relationship with his best friend Jason.
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* AdaptationalSexuality: In the Nifty version Graham is homosexual and that means it will be more difficult for him to obtain the guardianship for Jamie. In the ASSTR/PZA version his sexual orientation is never mentioned.
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* AdaptationalSexuality: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. In the Nifty version Graham is homosexual and that means it will be more difficult for him to obtain the guardianship for Jamie. In the ASSTR/PZA version his sexual orientation is never mentioned.mentioned though he's not stated to be straight either.
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* CastFullOfGay: In the original Nifty version of the story, deuteragonist Graham is gay, though he never makes a big deal out of it. In both versions, the story's protagonist Jamie is gay himself, made clear in the epilogue where he kisses and eventually gets into a relationship with his best friend Jason.
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* CastFullOfGay: In the original Nifty version of the story, deuteragonist Graham is gay, though he never makes a big deal out of it. In both versions, the story's protagonist Jamie is gay himself, queer, made clear in the epilogue where he kisses and eventually gets into a relationship with his best friend Jason.
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* CastFullOfGay: In the original Nifty version of the story, deuteragonist Graham is gay, though he never makes a big deal out of it. In both versions, the story's protagonist Jamie is gay himself, made clear in the epilogue where he kisses and eventually gets into a relationship with his best friend Jason.
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* LoopholeAbuse: When Matty is ordered by the court to deliver Jamie a letter from his mother, she's quick to imply that it doesn't mean that Jamie has to read it. She goes as far as giving Jamie matches when he asks.
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The story can be found [[https://tedlouis.com/cysaq/cysaq.html here]].
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The story can be found [[https://tedlouis.[[https://web.archive.org/web/20220604090356/https://tedlouis.com/cysaq/cysaq.html here]].
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The story can be found [[https://web.archive.org/web/20200220143947/https://tedlouis.com/cysaq/cysaq.html here]].
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The story can be found [[https://web.archive.org/web/20200220143947/https://tedlouis.[[https://tedlouis.com/cysaq/cysaq.html here]].
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* AluminumChristmasTrees: Jamie at first isn't convinced that Jason knows an actual medicine man, thinking that they only exist in films.
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* AluminumChristmasTrees: [[invoked]] Jamie at first isn't convinced that Jason knows an actual medicine man, thinking that they only exist in films.
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* BrokenBird: Due to his history of being abused at hole and being used by most men he's encountered, Jamie is initially very cynical and distrusting and becomes trusting of other people only after some time with Graham.
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* BrokenBird: Due to his history of being abused at hole home and being used by most men he's encountered, Jamie is initially very cynical and distrusting and becomes trusting of other people only after some time with Graham.
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* ImaginedInnuendo: Jamie originally assumes that Jason is Graham's boy (in the sense of SexSlave or at least sex partner) and wonders whether Graham will still want him, but Graham assures him that he (Jason) isn't.
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* UnEntendre: Jamie originally assumes that Jason is Graham's boy (in the sense of SexSlave or at least sex partner) and wonders whether Graham will still want him, but Graham assures him that he (Jason) isn't.
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The story can be found [[https://web.archive.org/web/20200220143947/https://tedlouis.com/cysaq/cysaq.html here]].
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The story exists in an [[http://www.nifty.org/nifty/gay/adult-youth/can-you-spare-a-quarter-original/ old]] version hosted on Nifty and a new version on [[https://web.archive.org/web/20190521084753/https://www.asstr.org/~pza/stories/TigerPaw/Can_You_Spare_a_Quarter_v2A.html ASSTR]] and [[https://tedlouis.com/cysaq/cysaq.html here]].
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* DoubleStandardRapeMaleOnMale: Defied. Anyone who cared about Jamie considered what he went through by his father a horrific act. The police even went as far as to arrest those who sexually abused him, when he was living in the streets, during the story's climax.
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* AssShove: [[spoiler:According to the doctors, Jamie's life-threatening haemorrhage resulted from an object being shoved up his bowels when he was raped by his father, and resulted in serious internal injuries]].
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* NoNameGiven: We never get to know what Jamie's family name is.
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* NoNameGiven: NoFullNameGiven: We never get to know what Jamie's family name is.
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* BreakThemByTalking: Graham drives a security guard who is after Jamie away by claiming that the boy is his son and by implying that he can get the security guard sacked. Jamie is impressed that a small man like Graham can scare away a latge security guard without any violence or threat thereof.
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* BreakThemByTalking: Graham drives a security guard who is after Jamie away by claiming that the boy is his son and by implying that he can get the security guard sacked. Jamie is impressed that a small man like Graham can scare away a latge large security guard without any violence or threat thereof.
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The story exists in an [[http://www.nifty.org/nifty/gay/adult-youth/can-you-spare-a-quarter-original/ old]] version hosted on Nifty and a new version on [[https://web.archive.org/web/20190521084753/https://www.asstr.org/~pza/stories/TigerPaw/Can_You_Spare_a_Quarter_v2A.html ASSTR]].
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The story exists in an [[http://www.nifty.org/nifty/gay/adult-youth/can-you-spare-a-quarter-original/ old]] version hosted on Nifty and a new version on [[https://web.archive.org/web/20190521084753/https://www.asstr.org/~pza/stories/TigerPaw/Can_You_Spare_a_Quarter_v2A.html ASSTR]].
ASSTR]] and [[https://tedlouis.com/cysaq/cysaq.html here]].
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* AffectionateNickname: Jamie calls Graham "Pop", which the latter appreciates even though Jamie using this word often is a sign of something big about to happen.
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* TimeSkip: The epilogue plays out eight years after the rest of the story, and it is the moment when Jamie - who is now an adult - finally breaks with the last vestiges of his [[DarkAndTroubledPast past]].
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* FriendshipTrinket: Jason has made a bracelet made out of beads that he gifts to Jamie as a sign and symbol of their friendship.
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* FriendshipTrinket: Jason has made a bracelet made out of beads that he gifts to Jamie as a sign and symbol of their friendship. He says that Jamie should make a wish when it comes off, and that when that happens the wish will be realized. [[spoiler:Jamie loses the bracelet during his fight with his father but survives, which according to Jason is the wish coming true]]
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* GoalInLife: Graham has been missing ''something'' in his life before the encounter. [[spoiler:He eventually realizes that having a kid to take care of is what he was missing, and Jamie happily accepts that function]].
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* GoalInLife: Graham has been missing ''something'' in his life before the encounter. [[spoiler:He eventually realizes that having a kid ''someone'' to take care of about is what he was missing, and Jamie happily accepts that function]].
