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[tarrytown]

... 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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[eluding]

[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.

[tarrytown]

[ 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.