[There's something about it that smells like bullshit. He doesn't think she's lying, at least deceptively, but it might just be that he has a distaste for something to be a classic gift. What changes the world if it's comfortable enough to be considered classical?]
Yeah.
[He takes a sip of his water to take pause; even then, there's a moment for him to figure out how to say it--what kind of delivery Noriko would handle best, given that she seems to take his history of addiction to heart.
In the end, he struggles to keep eye contact with her as he explains it.]
My parents were...really, really religious. They didn't really know how to handle the schizophrenia thing, so they kept trying exorcisms. I started using to self-medicate out of desperation--and it made the exorcisms a lot more tolerable. Once they figured out what I was doing, they kicked me out.
I have a sister, too. We talk every so often, but we're kinda distant. My parents had her only to make up for their first failure, and unfortunately, she knows. Left home when she was eighteen.
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[There's something about it that smells like bullshit. He doesn't think she's lying, at least deceptively, but it might just be that he has a distaste for something to be a classic gift. What changes the world if it's comfortable enough to be considered classical?]
Yeah.
[He takes a sip of his water to take pause; even then, there's a moment for him to figure out how to say it--what kind of delivery Noriko would handle best, given that she seems to take his history of addiction to heart.
In the end, he struggles to keep eye contact with her as he explains it.]
My parents were...really, really religious. They didn't really know how to handle the schizophrenia thing, so they kept trying exorcisms. I started using to self-medicate out of desperation--and it made the exorcisms a lot more tolerable. Once they figured out what I was doing, they kicked me out.
I have a sister, too. We talk every so often, but we're kinda distant. My parents had her only to make up for their first failure, and unfortunately, she knows. Left home when she was eighteen.
[Yeah. That's the sugar-coated version.
Another sip...]
...Maybe we should visit her.