“I wish you understood I don’t want someone else.” There was gravel in Nathaniel’s voice. “I wish you understood that it’s not who you are that bothers me, but what you do, and those things are not the same.” “Yes, they are. What we mean or think or say is hot air, at most.” Justin’s breath steamed as he spoke. “We are what we do. There isn’t anything else.” “There’s potential,” Nathaniel said. “There is what we could do, if we chose. I see the man you could be because it’s part of the man you are. I don’t ask you to change anything for my sake, but I wish you would do it for your own, because
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