[It is not fair; it never was. Simon has never needed to hear anything quite so much as he needs to hear that, and frequently. He's been adrift for too long without a mentor who can speak from hard life experience, and his naivete is stubbornly entrenched. No, it's not fair--but it won't be made fair with mere kicking and screaming and pettiness.]
It's not as if we were ever doing it for the thanks, anyway.
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It's not as if we were ever doing it for the thanks, anyway.