Perhaps you would've been the one flying kites with him, instead of me.
[It's an almost absentminded remark, but once it escapes him, he doesn't look as though he wishes he could take it back. It simply hangs there in the air, just like that: a thought, to be taken for what it is, and nothing more.]
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[It's an almost absentminded remark, but once it escapes him, he doesn't look as though he wishes he could take it back. It simply hangs there in the air, just like that: a thought, to be taken for what it is, and nothing more.]
If things had gone differently?