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51. Street
Tom drives home late after a long day and when he sees ambulances on his street his heart races and he pleads with God, "not Joe, not Joe, not Joe", but then Joe's knocking on the car window saying the neighbors set their kitchen on fire but Tom doesn't hear and suddenly he's hugging Joe in a death grip in the middle of the street.

52. Coupon
Joe makes a comment at breakfast about a coupon for orange juice in the newspaper, and somehow it leads to an orange juice water balloon war in the backyard.

53. Pattern
When autumn rolls around, every year like clockwork Tom's brain switches into football mode and he gets more distant from Joe and the kids, but this year Joe's determined to break him out of this pattern.

54. Hypocrisy
When Joe loses to Tom, Tom is excited, naturally, but when Tom loses to Joe, Joe's expected to tell him he should've won and he's the Greatest Of All Time and Joe has to bite his tongue to keep him from chewing Tom out for being the biggest hypocrite ever.

55. Emergency
An hour before Super Bowl XLIX, Joe breaks his leg when he falls off a ladder adjusting the cable dish and Tom's the only one he can call, so Tom brings him to the field and the trainers set his leg and Joe's shocked and pleasantly surprised when Tom misses the first quarter of the game making sure he's okay.

56. Majestic
When Joe was younger he used to dream of being someone's knight in shining armor and rescuing a princess and living happily ever after, but Joe would never have guessed that he'd do something so majestic as capturing the heart of a dragon like Tom Brady.

57. Wound
Tom and Joe face off in the AFC championship, and Joe wins, and though Tom assures him it's alright, he grumbles about it in his sleep for days afterward and Tom's unconscious words are as painful to Joe as a festering wound.

58. Girlfriend
Tom's told his family he's seeing someone and he brings Joe home to meet them and when the doorbell rings his mom's a wreck saying "Tommy, is your girlfriend here? I bet she's so pretty" and Tom just smiles and lets Joe in and says "Mom, this is Joe, he's my boyfriend but he sure is pretty".

59. Camp
Joe doesn't want to go to math camp, he wants to go to football camp, but he's stuck here so he slumps down in the only empty seat and it's beside the school's all-star quarterback Tom and when Tom grins and asks "your parents forced you here also, huh?" Joe doesn't want to be at football camp anymore.

60. Health
Joe's eight years younger than Tom and still going strong but with all of Tom's recent surgeries Joe thinks maybe Tom should call it quits and worry about his health, but Tom assures Joe he's invincible.

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