[ Not the ones she means, obviously, and even he can't really say NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS after all that, so, shortly: ]
It's like when someone is kind to you, but it feels like they are trying to prove—they were never angry. They never let me see them flinch. I hate it.
[ That's the part of the big amorphous cloud of no that he can define, anyway. ]
And I could hardly look them in the eyes, after all the things I've done— [ not during the war, no; that was all the genuine feeling he can communicate for the week ] —with 'men and women of a certain age.'
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[ Not the ones she means, obviously, and even he can't really say NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS after all that, so, shortly: ]
It's like when someone is kind to you, but it feels like they are trying to prove—they were never angry. They never let me see them flinch. I hate it.
[ That's the part of the big amorphous cloud of no that he can define, anyway. ]
And I could hardly look them in the eyes, after all the things I've done— [ not during the war, no; that was all the genuine feeling he can communicate for the week ] —with 'men and women of a certain age.'