'Family', huh? Wasn't there any subject other you could have picked?
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It's not something anyone really wants to talk about. But since I came here out of boredom... [sighs, lifts up knees onto chair and looks off camera] I may as well say something about it.
Since no one's going to see it, are they?
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[looks back on camera] Both of us were born before the Change. My earliest memory is waking up and finding both mom and dad gone, so I don't know much about them. I was never close to them, anyway, I know that much. Always distant, right from the start. She was only a few months old when it happened. I had to look after her in that time; but then when we got to the Dorms, we got seperated.
I watched her growing up. Never really talked to her.. only so much time that you could, and I'd rather not get attatched to anything- and I didn't. I just watched her grow up. [places face in palm of hand]
What? Her name?
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.... Utau.
She liked to sing. She sang to her friends when there was lunch; and I often watched her. Heh. Still, I never talked to her. She tried to talk to me once, but I left without a word.
[sigh] How old is she?
.... fourteen. Do I have hope she--? Shade, think about it. Each day it gets less likely.
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I wouldn't have an ideal family. I'm too independant for that one. [smirks]
Ja ne. [sticks tongue out]