[Especially in the ways in which she didn't fit in and didn't compromise to appease others and was impatient with or indifferent to so many of the usual things… she was stubborn and irreverent and anarchic and unpredictable and provocative and perfectly amazing. And he wasn't the only one who saw it; was drawn to and refreshed by and respected it.]
…I mean, for one thing, you're a war hero.
[He winced as soon as the words left his mouth. They both knew war too well to find that entirely positive.]
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Date: 2019-08-09 02:40 am (UTC)[Especially in the ways in which she didn't fit in and didn't compromise to appease others and was impatient with or indifferent to so many of the usual things… she was stubborn and irreverent and anarchic and unpredictable and provocative and perfectly amazing. And he wasn't the only one who saw it; was drawn to and refreshed by and respected it.]
…I mean, for one thing, you're a war hero.
[He winced as soon as the words left his mouth. They both knew war too well to find that entirely positive.]