Yes, that is what it tends to feel like. Something necessary. And then it's thirty years later and you haven't made a meaningful human connection in that whole time because you're too busy thinking about what 'had to happen'.
[But this isn't really his lesson to teach. That is, it's one he's learned the hard way and knows by heart, but it's one you need to learn somewhere other than a text conversation with a man you only know in bits and pieces.]
I can tell you that we won. Believe me if we hadn't I wouldn't be wasting time discussing the finer points of Pokémon biology, I would be devoting every waking moment to finding a way back.
Or more likely I'd be dead and you wouldn't be talking to me.
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[But this isn't really his lesson to teach. That is, it's one he's learned the hard way and knows by heart, but it's one you need to learn somewhere other than a text conversation with a man you only know in bits and pieces.]
I can tell you that we won. Believe me if we hadn't I wouldn't be wasting time discussing the finer points of Pokémon biology, I would be devoting every waking moment to finding a way back.
Or more likely I'd be dead and you wouldn't be talking to me.