It's easier each time I do it. I'm just sorry that...you said you wanted to know me and so I shared but it's not a particularly light story. Not for a date...
[And that's the truth of it. She feels self-conscious because she just trotted out all of her horrors forgetting that most people didn't have stories like hers. Most people wouldn't know how to respond to them. He's being very sweet about it all which she appreciates immensely but in some ways she feels a little bit worse that she's making him feel as if he has to support her emotionally.
She gives him a stronger smile instead. Forced, but there.]
Perhaps I should have told you stories about my mother when she would cook us dinner, or the time Pietro took us out to the countryside for a day...[She pauses a beat, then tilts her chin toward him.] Or you could take your turn. Tell me more about yourself?
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It's easier each time I do it. I'm just sorry that...you said you wanted to know me and so I shared but it's not a particularly light story. Not for a date...
[And that's the truth of it. She feels self-conscious because she just trotted out all of her horrors forgetting that most people didn't have stories like hers. Most people wouldn't know how to respond to them. He's being very sweet about it all which she appreciates immensely but in some ways she feels a little bit worse that she's making him feel as if he has to support her emotionally.
She gives him a stronger smile instead. Forced, but there.]
Perhaps I should have told you stories about my mother when she would cook us dinner, or the time Pietro took us out to the countryside for a day...[She pauses a beat, then tilts her chin toward him.] Or you could take your turn. Tell me more about yourself?