[Garry watches that reaction, his mouth thinning into a sympathetic line at that sigh and the evident frustration and exhaustion behind it.]
... I understand.
[A beat, then:]
You don't have to elaborate if you don't want to, you know-- I would certainly be a hypocrite to insist that other people do something I've been trying to avoid doing myself.
[Perhaps that seems like an odd statement coming from someone as seemingly outwardly normal as Garry, or perhaps not.]
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... I understand.
[A beat, then:]
You don't have to elaborate if you don't want to, you know-- I would certainly be a hypocrite to insist that other people do something I've been trying to avoid doing myself.
[Perhaps that seems like an odd statement coming from someone as seemingly outwardly normal as Garry, or perhaps not.]