His hands are closed on each other, gripping tight, as though he's trying to stop himself from grasping his own wrists.
"I wasn't allowed," he half-whispers, "to say anything like that to him. For the longest time. And for most of that time I wouldn't even have tried to, or, or wanted to. I ... wasn't sure I could."
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His hands are closed on each other, gripping tight, as though he's trying to stop himself from grasping his own wrists.
"I wasn't allowed," he half-whispers, "to say anything like that to him. For the longest time. And for most of that time I wouldn't even have tried to, or, or wanted to. I ... wasn't sure I could."