We weren't. And aren't. My adoptive father is a distant relative who more a politician than anything else. I'm grateful that he took me in when I had nowhere else to go, but... I suppose it was what it was.
[Not very long ago, Marianne would be speaking of this with a great deal more sadness and anger. But she's grown as a person, as much as one can during a war, and she's working harder to make peace with the circumstances of her adolescence and young adulthood so far.]
We're learning to understand each other now. So I have that, at least.
[She pauses after Jade offers her condolences. Really, the other woman's strength of spirit and character despite what must have been a difficult life is nothing short of amazing.]
Thank you. And I'm sorry you had to run from yours, whatever the reasons were.
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We weren't. And aren't. My adoptive father is a distant relative who more a politician than anything else. I'm grateful that he took me in when I had nowhere else to go, but... I suppose it was what it was.
[Not very long ago, Marianne would be speaking of this with a great deal more sadness and anger. But she's grown as a person, as much as one can during a war, and she's working harder to make peace with the circumstances of her adolescence and young adulthood so far.]
We're learning to understand each other now. So I have that, at least.
[She pauses after Jade offers her condolences. Really, the other woman's strength of spirit and character despite what must have been a difficult life is nothing short of amazing.]
Thank you. And I'm sorry you had to run from yours, whatever the reasons were.