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That... All sounds really bad. I don't know what to say though. Maybe I shouldn't say anything. Since I just remind you so much of him, for, uh. Obvious reasons. I don't want to make you feel worse, or make it sound like I'm offering a defense. For him, or me. Because I don't have one. For either of us. come on man YOU didnt do anything this was just some douche bag with your exact dna, who happened to grow up to be my bro you had a completely different life full of like different choices and actions and stuff and even if you were gonna turn out like him youve barely cleared the half way mark on actually chronologically gettin there in some way ranting about all this is probably just uncool of me because... you arent him youre not resposible for any of this shit but im sorta implicitly tacking it on you anyway so sorry about that I'm not sure it's true though. At least, I don't feel that way. what way That I'm not him. The fact is, I am. It's something I've come to understand about myself. All splinters of me are basically me, no matter how much I want to resist that truth. Or pretend they aren't reflecting my own qualities back at me. I bear a certain responsibility for all of them. splinters...? Yeah. I guess the concept isn't that unique to me. We've all got other versions of ourselves running around here and there, throughout the various compartments of this messed up cosmos. right I just happen to be particularly connected to mine. I've felt... Haunted by them. And what that really means is, I'm perpetually haunted by my own bad qualities. So, when I hear about stuff I did in another reality, I'm not sure what my adult self might have ever tried to do to atone for that stuff, if anything... pretty much dick squat Yeah. But in any case, I'm sure I was completely in the wrong, and I'm sorry I messed up your life. ...
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