[this is killing him more because he can't just reach through a screen to hug the guy and empathize than anything.
so he talks out the words he types, kind of trying to magically impose his sincerity:]
It makes sense. Thinking about what you could've done differently, or maybe changing one thing about it. Maybe a dozen things... Realizing some stupid mistake if you hadn't done or did something, or if you had been somewhere else... I know. I'm so sorry. I wish you didn't have to go through something like that. It's not fair...
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so he talks out the words he types, kind of trying to magically impose his sincerity:]
It makes sense.
Thinking about what you could've done differently, or maybe changing one thing about it. Maybe a dozen things... Realizing some stupid mistake if you hadn't done or did something, or if you had been somewhere else...
I know.
I'm so sorry. I wish you didn't have to go through something like that. It's not fair...