.... well, if anyone else proves difficult in the coming days -
I hope you try again with them. I hope that you continue to hold your hand out to people, because it does create a bit of light even when you think it doesn't.
I'll try too, so we can avoid something like this happening again.
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[He considers that for a few moments.]
No, I don't feel that it was my fault. I just think - maybe it was easier for me than for others to see who he was.
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That's true.
But... it's not your responsibility to save him either.
Or do you think it was?
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[That's a sort of heavy word, and not one that he likes.]
It's not that I thought I was the only one who could help.
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Mm, that's good - I think a lot of people like believing they're the only ones who could save someone.
... but it sounds as though you think you needed to speak on his behalf in order to convince others.
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[It looked. Really bad.]
But I hoped that I might have been able to show him a different way.
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I hope you try again with them. I hope that you continue to hold your hand out to people, because it does create a bit of light even when you think it doesn't.
I'll try too, so we can avoid something like this happening again.
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I will. I won't stop reaching out. Even if it doesn't change anything now, maybe one day it might.
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Mm.
I am glad that you're here, Shigeo. I would send you home immediately if I could, for the record, because I'd rather no children be present -
But talking to you makes me feel better about a lot of things.