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“I wish you’d been my mom,” I said, unable to tell how much I meant and how much was ingratiation. I was always mistaking them for each other. She shook her body, as if throwing something off. “No, no, I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have said that.” “But you meant it.” “Griffon, people who’ve been through the things we’ve been through, we learn to say things to other adults that will make them love us. I shouldn’t prompt you for what to say. I shouldn’t be like this. I should wait and earn your trust.”
― Isaac Fellman, Notes from a Regicide