“You also want someone who will take care of you—cook and bake, give you this sense of normalcy, and this place of comfort, and feeling of home—and the thing is, everyone wants that. But what you do isn’t abnormal. In fact, it’s pretty fucking heroic and brave and amazing and important and if you go home at the end of the day and shut it all off and hide from it, I’m afraid you’ll start believing it’s strange and bad.” She took a breath. “You can make your own comfort and home, Spencer. You’re striving for this ideal that is what someone else has told you is right. But home doesn’t have to
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