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“I don’t think you can take a vacation from a deeply held belief, Uncle, or you must not hold it very deeply,” Saoirse said. “You can betray your values in a moment of weakness, but you cannot part yourself from them completely.”
“You’ve always encouraged me to speak my mind, to follow the beat of my own drum,” Saoirse said. “Won’t you still encourage me to do that, even though my mind, for once, is not aligned with yours?”
“Besides, half of being attractive is believing you’re attractive. People notice how you carry yourself before they notice the symmetry in your face or how slim your waist is.
Maybe everyone was cursed to want the thing they could not have. Or maybe they only wanted it because they couldn’t have it, and that was the curse?
