That's far less complicated than you might think, Magicman. I don't seem to have any memories of you ever opening up quite this much to me before, but I'm glad you did now.
It might go without saying that I understand entirely. I don't know if I ever went into details with you, but the compressed version is that I was trapped in a cave-in and nearly deactivated permanently. ("Died" doesn't seem like the right word.)
My mother was terrified of losing me and though that if I couldn't show emotions, if she could just reduce me to a tool, then she could save herself the anguish if anything like that should happen again. She was wrong, obviously, and she did restore my ability to experience emotions eventually. And I don't fault her for her choice. It makes perfect sense.
As I explain this, I'm starting to get the feeling I've told you all this before. It does make me wish I could have learned this about you sooner. Maybe we wouldn't be working so hard to sort through our memories of each other. But I know you also had reasons.
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It might go without saying that I understand entirely. I don't know if I ever went into details with you, but the compressed version is that I was trapped in a cave-in and nearly deactivated permanently. ("Died" doesn't seem like the right word.)
My mother was terrified of losing me and though that if I couldn't show emotions, if she could just reduce me to a tool, then she could save herself the anguish if anything like that should happen again. She was wrong, obviously, and she did restore my ability to experience emotions eventually. And I don't fault her for her choice. It makes perfect sense.
As I explain this, I'm starting to get the feeling I've told you all this before. It does make me wish I could have learned this about you sooner. Maybe we wouldn't be working so hard to sort through our memories of each other. But I know you also had reasons.