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[runs]

So, how do you deal with having had a stupid overlay?

[The agent was just disturbing. Mostly because she was so much older than Kitty, so it wasn't even so much an alternative reality as a possible future.]

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[runs]

Well, she wasn't me, so there's no point in me apologizing for her.

[She should probably apologize for not having stopped her earlier, considering she was in the backseat popcorning at the situation the whole time, but... Nah. Why would she do that.]

That wouldn't help anyone.

[acapriciousthing]

Would it help you to think about where the big differences are?

[runs]

...Of course there are big differences now. She was way older than me.

[acapriciousthing]

But not who you'd want to be when you grow up.

[runs]

I don't know how she got there, though.

[And perhaps that is the core issue. How do you avoid taking the same steps if you don't know the path they took?]