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"I know. But I don't want her to be better at lying, I want her to love me."

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"I didn't mean practice at lying."

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"I want to require less practice to love."

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"You don't require practice for everybody to love."

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"Parents are supposed to have an unusually easy time loving you."

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"It doesn't always work that way and mental illnesses can make it much more complicated."

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"Can we do invisibility? Please?"

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"So you can be invisible and run away from your parents until they haul a Maia out here to find you? Or just ask me where your mind is?"

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"You can tell where I am even if I'm invisible?"

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"Yes."

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"Do they know you can do that?"

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"...I don't think it's come up specifically."

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"So help me develop invisibility and then don't tell them.

Please."
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"Then they will not be able to find you and they will be very concerned."

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"No they won't, they'll know I'm okay because everything is safe. They just won't be able to make me leave."

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"They are capable of being concerned about things other than your physical safety."

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"They'll be more concerned if they drag me home and I spend the next year in a blinding panic about how much time I'm wasting."

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"...Um, I was able to avoid most of the effect on my trips to and from seeing Manwë by keeping a schedule without achieving 'blinding panic'," she says. "Also people usually don't weigh decisions by what will make them more concerned; if they're concerned about you their reaction is likely to be to keep a closer eye on you so that they only have to be concerned about known things."

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"If that's true," he says, "then being concerned about someone doesn't really have much to do with caring about their wellbeing."

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"They have to do with each other, but sometimes a little upstream from deciding what to do about either," Bella says.

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"When I have kids I'm going to do whatever is best for them, not whatever makes me not worry. And I'm going to love them."

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"That is a good plan."

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Finwe and Miriel are walking towards them. Fëanáro looks trapped and cornered and miserable.

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I have to avoid your mother till her appointment, I'm sorry, Bella says, and she sets Fëanáro down and nips into her bungalow.

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And Fëanáro spends several hours pleading with his parents to stay and is eventually tearfully dragged off.

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