[ ... People can build monuments to your ego, Hansen.
Raleigh is silent for a long moment, because she knows she can't even begin to imagine how that feels. Their circumstances are different, and Raleigh wonders if she'd feel the same way Chuck did if their situations were reversed.
A part of her wants to tell him to suck it up, to move on because his dad tried his best; but she doesn't, because -- because. It feels an awful lot like abandonment, and Raleigh knows the feeling all too well. But: ]
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Raleigh is silent for a long moment, because she knows she can't even begin to imagine how that feels. Their circumstances are different, and Raleigh wonders if she'd feel the same way Chuck did if their situations were reversed.
A part of her wants to tell him to suck it up, to move on because his dad tried his best; but she doesn't, because -- because. It feels an awful lot like abandonment, and Raleigh knows the feeling all too well. But: ]
...Why did he come back?