I left behind the innocence of youth some time ago.
[ her youth, her innocence, it was lost the moment she witnessed her adoptive father's assassination. she ceased to be a child after that, moved by both that traumatic experience, the truth of her origins, and her conversation with doctor j. ]
You don't need to justify yourself to me. [ she waves it off. ] We're only human, after all. Humans have weaknesses, no matter how strong we claim to be. Sometimes, it's too much, and in order to deal with that, we have to seek out methods of coping with it that aren't just standing still with a false, impenetrable smile. It's okay to not want to deal with reality for a while, Mister Young.
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[ her youth, her innocence, it was lost the moment she witnessed her adoptive father's assassination. she ceased to be a child after that, moved by both that traumatic experience, the truth of her origins, and her conversation with doctor j. ]
You don't need to justify yourself to me. [ she waves it off. ] We're only human, after all. Humans have weaknesses, no matter how strong we claim to be. Sometimes, it's too much, and in order to deal with that, we have to seek out methods of coping with it that aren't just standing still with a false, impenetrable smile. It's okay to not want to deal with reality for a while, Mister Young.