[He says, a sort of anxiousness bubbling up in him, too. The kind that's derived more from friendship than pure, rational logic — and while the latter is what they should base the heft of their decisions on, it is the former that makes him want to argue the point further.]
Those who leave might be hoofing it for a while. [Sorry for his modern colloquialism there, but it gets the point across.] But we'd have our autonomy. That's more than what anyone who chooses to stay will have.
[Not to disparage the choice of anyone who does, ultimately, decide to stay. But this is a reality that is surely quite obvious.]
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[He says, a sort of anxiousness bubbling up in him, too. The kind that's derived more from friendship than pure, rational logic — and while the latter is what they should base the heft of their decisions on, it is the former that makes him want to argue the point further.]
Those who leave might be hoofing it for a while. [Sorry for his modern colloquialism there, but it gets the point across.] But we'd have our autonomy. That's more than what anyone who chooses to stay will have.
[Not to disparage the choice of anyone who does, ultimately, decide to stay. But this is a reality that is surely quite obvious.]