[All the more reason Eugene would have liked to get away from it all, but someone had to stand up and represent something while not spiriting away. Max's statement and Eugene's were different sides of the same dilemma, but Eugene could live with himself in the life he had currently]
I don't think I'd want to change him, he's... perfect, just as--
[Wait, family. A mother and a father, perhaps even a sibling and Eugene might tell him to go for it, but a daughter? A daughter, who might need a father instead of being left behind. He stopped mid-sentence and looked at Max, expectant, because an explanation was in serious need of forthcoming]
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I don't think I'd want to change him, he's... perfect, just as--
[Wait, family. A mother and a father, perhaps even a sibling and Eugene might tell him to go for it, but a daughter? A daughter, who might need a father instead of being left behind. He stopped mid-sentence and looked at Max, expectant, because an explanation was in serious need of forthcoming]
And?