Now, too, since we have an unbounded time to talk things out, we can start some longer-running conversations without worrying that we won't get it settled before we're on different continents again.
(Confidential to AF: I'm happy to talk about the bunny suit, but I think that thing with the goldfish crosses a few of my boundaries. Sorry.)
Then there's also the kid, who will be very happy to see me. I'll be happy to see him, too, though I find him, and our relationship, perplexing. He's known me for quite a while now, and he's decided I'm a very important person in his family--at some point I developed into my own category, so when we were Skyping earlier this year while Anna's father was visiting, he told me, "Me and Chris went to the park," when he was talking about his grandfather (who is not named Chris). I haven't done much caretaking with him, and he's usually playing with Anna when he's with us (and we only lived together a month), but I guess it's enough that I treat him like a person and he sees me and Anna in action.
Did I mention I get to be with Anna again?
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He's a perceptive boy, for all that he often doesn't make eye contact and wanders around while you're talking to him. He can tell how I feel about you, and how we feel together. I remember your category now--I think it was "gentle man who loves me, is in my family, and lives in my house." I think he finds the two-adult family you and I make to be wonderful. So do I.
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