I apologize for not saying anything sooner. I suppose my only excuse is my terrible slowness in coming to understand my own shortcomings... and then the boat docking disrupting other plans.
[ was she. She looks slightly doubtful about being Good At Kids, but. ]
... Don't act as if we'll never see each other again. There's always the chance the boat pulls be back in a few weeks. And if not that, there's the next docking.
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And more importantly, I suppose, the implication that I held no love for you, as I believed you did not for me.
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Oh.
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Y'know... there were probably a dozen times in my life that I thought I was in love. Like-- really in love. "The one", all that.
Now I know that was naive, and most of 'em probably weren't love at all, not like that. But you...
That was real. I'm confident in that.
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... I do regret not knowing what was wrong with me earlier. Perhaps then I could have been a better partner, in general.
I do love you. Perhaps the strength of it isn't enough to support the feelings you're capable of, but it would be wrong of me not to say so.
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You were a pretty good partner, long after we broke up. On the boat. Handling the kids.
... I really enjoyed it. I want you to know I'll always think of that time fondly, for all its troubles.
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... Don't act as if we'll never see each other again. There's always the chance the boat pulls be back in a few weeks. And if not that, there's the next docking.
I'm also only a phone call away.
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I know, I know, just...
It'll be different. Y'know?
[ WHY DOES THIS FEEL LIKE GETTING DIVORCED* AGAIN
* never married ]
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Have some tea before it gets cold. Don't waste my work.
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[ He scoots over a little bit ]
Sit and drink with me.
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[ but she sits beside him, reaching over to pour him a cup, then one for herself. ]