How could he convince her that a mistake, even a spectacularly hurtful one, was not necessarily cause to reevaluate everything you thought you knew about the maker of that mistake? Mistake making had to be as deeply encoded in our DNA as everything else, like color vision or bipedalism. If there was an evolutionary purpose behind blushing or carsickness or the hair on our ass, surely the tendency to fuck up was something evolution left in the batter for a reason. He offered this not as an excuse, but as a way forward. If his crimes bled of humanity, were they not, after all the pain and anger,
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