I'd be more willing to believe that if you hadn't dropped out before you and your father went off on the Queen's Gambit.
[In other words, yes, the boating accident happened. Possibly not in the same manner, but it did happen. And she was not surprised that it happened to him as well, going by the current direction of this conversation. More and more parallels were surfacing.]
Because you are my child. Apparently. [As difficult as this still was to believe.] If you really are Oliver, then you'll always be my son. No matter how old and jaded you become.
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I'd be more willing to believe that if you hadn't dropped out before you and your father went off on the Queen's Gambit.
[In other words, yes, the boating accident happened. Possibly not in the same manner, but it did happen. And she was not surprised that it happened to him as well, going by the current direction of this conversation. More and more parallels were surfacing.]
Because you are my child. Apparently. [As difficult as this still was to believe.] If you really are Oliver, then you'll always be my son. No matter how old and jaded you become.