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... all right.

[ Cagey at the podium, but only a little (addressing the public at large, while far from the most intimidating thing, is still not really a thing she does); those two words encompass her resignation to her surroundings and all the things in them. ]

You could, uh. Talk to me about family problems?

[ That frown of hers is on the forbidding side. ]

Whatever yours were, if you had 'em. What you did, if anything. How it worked out. I'd like to hear it.

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Uh, it didn't. But I suppose that's common.

I can see you're not gonna start writing for Hallmark anytime soon.

Shit, I wouldn't even get through the door before they chased me out with pitchforks.

I'm not sure I'm allowed to even buy a card.

I suspect if I did it would just burst into flames on principle.

So what we're both saying here is that we got nothing for this question.

Not a damn thing, sorry. My problems don't even want me calling home anymore, so it's a mute point.

I guess that is "resolved," then.

Yeah. Not the inspirational message you were looking for, huh?

I was kind of hoping for ... I don't know. Not chicken soup for the soul, but maybe step by step, practical instructions on killing the chicken.

— There's probably a better analogy for that. [ But who has time to think their analogies through! ]

I could give you a step by step on how... not to kill the chicken? It really boils down to 'don't let people know you're crazy, don't rack up a a record longer than your arm, and stop staring at shit other people can't see' but that... should be easy to avoid. For most people.

[ She makes a noncommittal sound. ]

Sounds like decent life advice.

[ About thirteen years too late. ]

[they're in the same boat.]

I should write a book. "Advice From a Fuck-Up."

[Ethan's thoughts immediately go to his mother. He had been angry at her for such a long time, and it put a terrible wedge between the both of them that never got fixed.] I... avoided it until it was too late and so it was never quite resolved. At all. Definitely don't recommend avoidance.

[ Dry, but not unkind: ]

Yeah? I'll keep that in mind.

This is turning out to be a "what not to do" session, but I'll accept it.

I was raised with a powerful awareness of the obligation I had to my parents. It led me to take a path that I was most unsuited towards.

[Asher is solemn. As guarded and honest as it is capable to be.]

Things resolved themselves in the end though. For better or worse, all things do.

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