It was, at the time, a reasoned, considered decision... I thought carefully about the impacts, decided that no irreparable harm would be done, and said yes. You had lost a family member a few months earlier, were wrestling with another relationship, and few reasonable requests of yours would have been too much at that time.
And I did gain something... the drive wasn't bad, weather was nice, and I got to assuage some of my post-9/11 guilt for not having been more useful in those weeks. And I certainly didn't want you to carry any more emotional burden at that point, or feel bad about asking -- so I kept the information to myself for a couple of years, after which I thought it was old enough to be a safe example.
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Date: 2004-04-24 11:53 pm (UTC)And I did gain something... the drive wasn't bad, weather was nice, and I got to assuage some of my post-9/11 guilt for not having been more useful in those weeks. And I certainly didn't want you to carry any more emotional burden at that point, or feel bad about asking -- so I kept the information to myself for a couple of years, after which I thought it was old enough to be a safe example.