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Heartstopper · Season 2, Episode 8, "Perfect"

Isaac decorating for prom: Summer Bird Blue

Isaac Henderson (Tobie Donovan) · Decorating the school for prom

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The group decorates the school for prom and Isaac turns up carrying Summer Bird Blue. The narrator questions whether she's aromantic and asexual. Isaac's own big moment comes later that night.

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Cover of Summer Bird Blue by Akemi Dawn Bowman

Summer Bird Blue

Akemi Dawn Bowman · 2018 · YA novel

Akemi Dawn Bowman's 2018 novel about Rumi Seto, who moves to Hawaii after her sister dies and starts to work out that she doesn't feel attraction the way people expect. The writers put the season finale's twist in his hand and nobody in the gym noticed.

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