[The question has a bite to it. Enough so that it signals he's not even remotely interested in whatever reasons she might give for why he should be invested in any of this, if she even has any.]
[The way he sees it, this is just simply part of life. Sure, it takes a different tone and there's something a little more blatant in how viciously cyclical it is than back home, but it's all the same kind of ugliness that people don't talk about because they don't want to even acknowledge it. What is there to be worked up about? He's seen it before. He'll see it again. Everyone will.]
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[The question has a bite to it. Enough so that it signals he's not even remotely interested in whatever reasons she might give for why he should be invested in any of this, if she even has any.]
[The way he sees it, this is just simply part of life. Sure, it takes a different tone and there's something a little more blatant in how viciously cyclical it is than back home, but it's all the same kind of ugliness that people don't talk about because they don't want to even acknowledge it. What is there to be worked up about? He's seen it before. He'll see it again. Everyone will.]