( it comes quickly, easily, and with a surprising amount of sincerity for all that it clearly makes them both uncomfortable. making oneself vulnerable was like this, he was realizing. even when it was good it felt awkward and unsettling. )
I didn't know until I was older. My mother's heritage was exposed publicly, and the galaxy turned on our family for a time.
It was difficult. ( on the one hand it explained so much of their fear. on the other, they had kept the truth from him and in doing so had denied him something of the peace he had so desperately craved at the time. )
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( it comes quickly, easily, and with a surprising amount of sincerity for all that it clearly makes them both uncomfortable. making oneself vulnerable was like this, he was realizing. even when it was good it felt awkward and unsettling. )
I didn't know until I was older. My mother's heritage was exposed publicly, and the galaxy turned on our family for a time.
It was difficult. ( on the one hand it explained so much of their fear. on the other, they had kept the truth from him and in doing so had denied him something of the peace he had so desperately craved at the time. )