Understatement. She is the peoplest person I've ever met.
[He shakes his head at the rest, though,]
It's okay. You're actually the only other person I've met who lived that way.
[It's also painful, how long he lived alone, but a well known around the village. Something that is just a tacit fact about you that everyone around you knows loses a little bit of any power it has.]
[He also held up well for being that alone.]
Ten years. I moved there when I was 14.
[Which implies he broke ground on it even younger.]
[He's not entirely aware of how tragic this is. If it were any other 14-year-old in the village, he'd be horrified. But he thinks he was a very self-sufficient teenager with a solid head on his shoulders when it came to having a reasonable sense of danger.]
no subject
[He shakes his head at the rest, though,]
It's okay. You're actually the only other person I've met who lived that way.
[It's also painful, how long he lived alone, but a well known around the village. Something that is just a tacit fact about you that everyone around you knows loses a little bit of any power it has.]
[He also held up well for being that alone.]
Ten years. I moved there when I was 14.
[Which implies he broke ground on it even younger.]
[He's not entirely aware of how tragic this is. If it were any other 14-year-old in the village, he'd be horrified. But he thinks he was a very self-sufficient teenager with a solid head on his shoulders when it came to having a reasonable sense of danger.]
I got back in touch a little over a year ago.