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[beatsfor]

To be able to tell you what he said. To not have to lie to him a second time about whether I have been able to check on you.

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( which basically boils down to her being her. she sighs and closes her eyes. )

You must have been lying for me for years.

( since she hadn't exactly made it easy to find her for awhile. )

[beatsfor]

For both of us.

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I'm sorry, Rio.

I am.

[beatsfor]

So am I, my love.

[2804]

You haven't done anything.

[beatsfor]

That's not what you thought for a long, long time.

[2804]

Exactly.

It's what I thought. It doesn't mean it was true.

[beatsfor]

Benefit of a few hundred years. There's things I didn't do that I could have.

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Hindsight and all.

Maybe we both could have been better.

[beatsfor]

Maybe we both could have.

[2804]

I guess all we can do now is try and be better to each other.

[beatsfor]

About this, anyway.

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It's a start. It's something.

[beatsfor]

It is a start, and it's a good one.