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[kidsmenu]

Bon soir. I am Claudia de Lioncourt.

[Small, blonde, extremely curly. A little more articulate and staid in her manner than your average twelve-year-old girl. She's wearing a flowery T-shirt and a backward, pink baseball cap.]

I am seeking information on how family relationships mature as a child grows up, in this world and time. In my old world, it would hinge on marriage, and childbirth, and separation from the ancestral home. But it seems that times have changed. Or perhaps they never were.

I'm given to understand that ImPorts don't tend to have children or anything, but I'm open to hearing stories gathered from the natives. Or your other cultures. Apparently, there is a saying, 'when in Rome.' And it would seem there are infinite versions of Romes to choose from.

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do you need this thread for ac?! if so lmk i will boomer in USA timezone nighttimes!

[kidsmenu]

'What I could do.' By that you mean, that you could forgive him, don't you?

I'm all right but thank you for asking :>

[4thdimensional]

Well...it was my science he wasn't impressed with. He believed a law career was far more prestigious, and he was right. It would have been. I eventually became a town pariah for my devotion to science.

But he could see my heart was in it and that it was important. Enough so that he eventually established a scholarship for young scientists.

I was patient and forgiving, and after a little while, he saw the light too.

[kidsmenu]

Hmmm.

You persuaded him with your love and passion for science, alone? You didn't make some sort of profit, win some prestige, before he had his change of heart?

[She's somewhere between skeptical and impressed!]

[4thdimensional]

No. Fifty years later and I still haven't gained prestige. But he realized with all of our help that happiness is truly important.

sorry i got donkey punched by RL, feel free to disregard if this is too old now

[kidsmenu]

You seem very sentimental. Is that a cultural trend? Where are you from?

it's ok. I'm dropping, so this'll be my last response, but I really enjoyed this

[4thdimensional]

I'm...well, when I'm from is pretty far away. But when I've lived this long and floated outside time...I wonder and ruminate quite a bit.

But it's dangerous to dwell too much on the past, remember that.

ah!! fare thee well! i enjoyed this too!

[kidsmenu]

Hmm. I will remember that for the future, monsieur. Thank you.