Perhaps for the other children, but not my son. I hardly intend to force myself constantly into his life, but I will not disappear from it. [He's actually getting rather passionate as he talks.] I have already done that once in my life, and that is perhaps the biggest reason why he has suffered so much for all of his life.
[He lets out a breath.]
I might have considered something like that before, but... of his own free will, he continues to approach me. The way he has reacted to my attempts at consoling...
[Quietly:]
I do not believe those are the actions of a boy who wants to be left alone, no matter how much he hates me and how much that wound still festers.
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Perhaps for the other children, but not my son. I hardly intend to force myself constantly into his life, but I will not disappear from it. [He's actually getting rather passionate as he talks.] I have already done that once in my life, and that is perhaps the biggest reason why he has suffered so much for all of his life.
[He lets out a breath.]
I might have considered something like that before, but... of his own free will, he continues to approach me. The way he has reacted to my attempts at consoling...
[Quietly:]
I do not believe those are the actions of a boy who wants to be left alone, no matter how much he hates me and how much that wound still festers.