[ His questions both earn a single nod, a slight smile. ]
By a few years, yes, but it didn't matter. He was my best friend.
[ They were all each other had growing up. Of course they had friends, their family β but Peggy was exasperatingly unusual as a child, precocious, preferred rough-housing with her brother in the garden rather than sitting inside with her mother like a lady-in-training. She slew imaginary dragons and rescued damsels and Michael, bless him, had played right along. And then the world tried to separate their parts to play and she let it.
And he went on to be the soldier and she convinced herself to marry one, instead. Then he was killed and she took up his flag. She believed, for so long, that she only did what he wanted her to do. But here, now? She realises it's what she was meant to do all along. He just knew it. ]
We drifted a little as we got older. I do regret that. And then he joined up with the army and β well, you can imagine how brave he was; clever as the devil too. And you wouldn't know it looking at him, but he was funnier than he let on. [ There's a pause and her expression softens as she adds, ] He knew me better than anyone else alive; better than I knew myself, if I'm being honest. I wouldn't be who I am now without him.
i will be here 5ever
By a few years, yes, but it didn't matter. He was my best friend.
[ They were all each other had growing up. Of course they had friends, their family β but Peggy was exasperatingly unusual as a child, precocious, preferred rough-housing with her brother in the garden rather than sitting inside with her mother like a lady-in-training. She slew imaginary dragons and rescued damsels and Michael, bless him, had played right along. And then the world tried to separate their parts to play and she let it.
And he went on to be the soldier and she convinced herself to marry one, instead. Then he was killed and she took up his flag. She believed, for so long, that she only did what he wanted her to do. But here, now? She realises it's what she was meant to do all along. He just knew it. ]
We drifted a little as we got older. I do regret that. And then he joined up with the army and β well, you can imagine how brave he was; clever as the devil too. And you wouldn't know it looking at him, but he was funnier than he let on. [ There's a pause and her expression softens as she adds, ] He knew me better than anyone else alive; better than I knew myself, if I'm being honest. I wouldn't be who I am now without him.