[He'd preemptively included her, because while Bruce might not enjoy socializing, per se, he does know how to do it when he puts the effort in. Consideration doesn't cost him anything, and smooths things quite a bit.
It's definitely true that they aren't the same. There's some undeniable similarities there, made perhaps more influential in their relationship by the relative rarity of finding them in another person, but there's far more differences. It's almost as if the points of commonality are so unexpected that they dominate their interactions.
Bruce is much more on his game today, compared to the last two times they'd spoken-- the dream, and before that, that entire revealing conversation-- and he isn't fazed at this comment. He merely retrieves a set of overly large serving chopsticks and starts to ladle out vegetables, tofu, and noodles.]
If you don't want to, then don't accept it, [he says, with the kind of unflappable calm of someone who can meditate at the drop of a pin.] But I don't mind it. I don't think of it as taking care of you.
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It's definitely true that they aren't the same. There's some undeniable similarities there, made perhaps more influential in their relationship by the relative rarity of finding them in another person, but there's far more differences. It's almost as if the points of commonality are so unexpected that they dominate their interactions.
Bruce is much more on his game today, compared to the last two times they'd spoken-- the dream, and before that, that entire revealing conversation-- and he isn't fazed at this comment. He merely retrieves a set of overly large serving chopsticks and starts to ladle out vegetables, tofu, and noodles.]
If you don't want to, then don't accept it, [he says, with the kind of unflappable calm of someone who can meditate at the drop of a pin.] But I don't mind it. I don't think of it as taking care of you.