[ Raleigh is patient. He doesn't push her, just lets her wipe her face with her free hand and holds the other, grip warm and firm. If she didn't say anything at all that would have been fine, too, but then she does, and he nods a little in acknowledgement. ]
We did our best. All of us. But I'm sorry it went how it did.
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We did our best. All of us. But I'm sorry it went how it did.