She is not, unfortunately. But you've given me several things to think about, so I suppose I owe you my thanks for that as well as for the offer of friendship. I am sure she would appreciate that much were she here.
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Would you mind if I were to ask you more questions about that sort of thing in the future? About what girls like and need. I was already an adult when my sister was born, and I wasn't around as she was growing up. I fear that I know next to nothing about that topic, and recent events in my world have made quite clear that my lack of knowledge on that front is... something of a problem.
[See: him having to be told that a weapon was not a good present for a preteen girl...]
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Would you mind if I were to ask you more questions about that sort of thing in the future? About what girls like and need. I was already an adult when my sister was born, and I wasn't around as she was growing up. I fear that I know next to nothing about that topic, and recent events in my world have made quite clear that my lack of knowledge on that front is... something of a problem.
[See: him having to be told that a weapon was not a good present for a preteen girl...]