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Chris and Marlo in the Good Place
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"...fair enough." He's holding Chris noticeably closer. 

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"...One of the reasons it is different is that, unlike your experiences, none of my experiences were unpleasant."

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"I'm glad for that." He doesn't let go, though. 

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"I was not aware you were in the military and I apologize for the implications of my comment."

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Chris's face goes oddly intense whenever Chris apologizes, but Marlo doesn't know Chris well enough to be able to tell where the intensity is coming from. He files the thought away to examine when he has more to work with. 

He... doesn't mention his actual objection to hearing his life referred to as sheltered; it seems unlikely to help anything. "You had no way to know," he says, instead of 'the world outside of your subculture is just as real as the world in it.' 

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"It was thoughtless. I should take more care to avoid making assumptions."

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Chris is still doing the strangely intense apology face and Marlo doesn't know how to interact with that. He pets Chris's hair instead, which seems much less likely to go disastrously wrong. 

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Chris sighs happily and rests his cheek on Marlo's shoulder.

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Good. It's โ€” good, when Chris is happy. He keeps petting Chris's hair. 

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At some point Chris will say, "maybe we should go explore the Good Place."

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"Presumably there are things other than small animal shops," he agrees, and lets go of Chris and stands up. 

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"I'm going to change. I didn't actually put on a new shirt this morning. I hope you don't mind...?"

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"I don't." He very much hopes this house has clothes in it. 

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Chris opens a drawer and strips off un-self-consciously. 

If Marlo's looking, he might notice that Chris is compact but well-muscled, the sort of muscles that come from use rather than working out, and that he has a penis. 

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He's not looking; the house might not give them much privacy but he is capable of being polite anyway. 

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Then Chris will dress in a black T-shirt and subtly expensive black jeans and they'll go outside. 

The Good Place looks like a more modern version of Main Street, U. S. A in Disneyland. It's not like there's anything that you can point to and go "this! this is the thing that's objectionable about this design." It has sidewalks and broad streets, small businesses and people's homes, flower gardens and trees. It just... doesn't look like a place where people live. It looks like a theme park designed by a person who thinks small towns are the epitome of virtue and who has never lived in one. 

Chris reaches out to hold Marlo's hand.

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There is, technically speaking, nothing objectionable, but Marlo is reminded of what he'd said earlier about trying too hard โ€” the grass is too perfectly cut, none of the paint has faded, everything is in colors that go together, nobody's front yard has dandelions.

He takes Chris's hand. 

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Things that exist in the Good Place:

--Let's All Eat Yogurt
--Hot Dogs On A Stick On A Stick
--The Good Plates
--Good Place's Best Yogurt
--Hawaii 5-Dough
--From Schmear To Eternity
--You Do The Hokey Gnocchi And You Get Yourself Some Food
--Yogurt Acres
--Lasagne Come Out Tomorrow
--Sushi and the Banshees
--Ponzu Scheme
--Custard's Last Flan
--Yogurt Horizons
--Chicken Soup for the Mouth
--Cake Canaveral 
--The Unbearable Lightness of Yogurt
--A bar with a rainbow flag outside named The Man-a of Heaven
--Everything You Need (it turns out, on inspection, to sell yogurt)

Things that do not exist in the Good Place:

--Libraries
--Gyms
--Stables
--Churches

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...he can kind of understand why Heaven wouldn't have churches. 

He has no idea whatsoever why Heaven wouldn't have libraries. 

He keeps holding Chris's hand. 

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Chris is increasingly irritated at every horrible pun. 

He pauses briefly in front of Man-a of Heaven but doesn't seem to become any less irritated.

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This street has a building that looks like a giant Gothic cathedral with stained glass!

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He's not Catholic but it's better than nothing! He walks toward it with more purpose than he'd been walking with before. 

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When he opens the door, he sees a sign that says A THOUSAND FLAVORS OF YOGURT! MORE FLAVORS THAN ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE GOOD PLACE!

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....are there at least stained glass windows? 

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There are stained glass windows!

The stained glass windows depict happy people gleefully eating yogurt.

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