Let their shattered family be protected. Let them hold the fragments of their lives together. Change is needed, yes, but there are others to do it, aren't there?
Don't do this to us, Gabriel she thinks. Simon and River are lost to us -- and, oh, the bitter grief in that still. Don't drag his madness and our grief across the newswaves.
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Let their shattered family be protected. Let them hold the fragments of their lives together. Change is needed, yes, but there are others to do it, aren't there?
Don't do this to us, Gabriel she thinks. Simon and River are lost to us -- and, oh, the bitter grief in that still. Don't drag his madness and our grief across the newswaves.
"All right," she says quietly. "I'm listening."