Max nods and there is a deep, deep understanding behind those soft brown eyes. He half reaches a hand out to Bart, but doesn't touch.
"Maybe you can feel that I know what you're talking about. Because I do. If you want to hear about it I'll tell you somewhere private but, I get it. I get what it feels like to not really belong to yourself and then one day you just... do. People think it's easy. Like, you're free now so just be happy and make your own choices but it's... scary. Because you have no idea what you're doing and now you have to figure it all out on your own."
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"Maybe you can feel that I know what you're talking about. Because I do. If you want to hear about it I'll tell you somewhere private but, I get it. I get what it feels like to not really belong to yourself and then one day you just... do. People think it's easy. Like, you're free now so just be happy and make your own choices but it's... scary. Because you have no idea what you're doing and now you have to figure it all out on your own."