[ She's nodding her head when she realizes, this isn't a video call, Raleigh can't see her acknowledging what he's said ( everything she's told him now feels utterly superfluous — we're working on it, he'd said — but that's okay; that's good. And it doesn't matter what part she played in it happening, if she had to lose him so that he would be okay, that's something she can live with.
She exhales, and if there's tremor in it, so what? ] Like I said. He means a lot to me.
You're a good brother, Raleigh. [ That last bit slips out before she can think twice. And she shakes her head, of course he's a good brother, Naomi, now put down the phone before you embarrass yourself further. ]
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She exhales, and if there's tremor in it, so what? ] Like I said. He means a lot to me.
You're a good brother, Raleigh. [ That last bit slips out before she can think twice. And she shakes her head, of course he's a good brother, Naomi, now put down the phone before you embarrass yourself further. ]
Well. I won't take up any more of your time.