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[In the end, you can't change people. And sometimes, you can't even want to change them, because they're the people they are for a reason, and they might be exactly who they need to be, and you have to respect that. But it doesn't mean you stop caring about them, or you stop trying to protect them, or that you let them give up, because that's what best friends are for. Carrying each other when they can't go any farther. And fixing their mistakes, owning up to each other, too.

Even if it means apologizing when you don't want to. Or pushing a little, too. And especially when the other doesn't want to hear it.]

Yeah - I mean, if you don't mind. [Sometimes people don't want company, and he won't encroach on that if she doesn't. But he's sort of thinking she wouldn't ask if she didn't, so...] I can be there in a minute.