"Understandable," Jedao says dryly; he's known a few like that.
"But I do think it's still...different. You don't just want Sokie to make you happy. You want Sokie to be happy, even if sometimes you also want her to stop doing the frustrating things. And that's a very different kind of love than you had with your suitors, or they with you, I think."
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"You don't want to hurt John, or Max, or Fitz, or Sokie, you said."
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"Well...sometimes I do want to hurt Sokie. When she is so deeply, deeply frustrating."
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"But I do think it's still...different. You don't just want Sokie to make you happy. You want Sokie to be happy, even if sometimes you also want her to stop doing the frustrating things. And that's a very different kind of love than you had with your suitors, or they with you, I think."
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"I want them all to be happy."