I hope you won't be offended if I say I'm proud of you.
[Charles said it to her once, those words exactly; it feels right, somehow, momentous, to pass them on, to someone she messed up with so egregiously, cares for regardless, understands deeply but sometimes sideways, often incompletely. But she's smiling enough to suggest she thinks it is unlikely.]
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[Charles said it to her once, those words exactly; it feels right, somehow, momentous, to pass them on, to someone she messed up with so egregiously, cares for regardless, understands deeply but sometimes sideways, often incompletely. But she's smiling enough to suggest she thinks it is unlikely.]