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_{[Honestly he can't even imagine how Steve would look as "small" or "unhealthy", considering the size of him now. What he was expecting even less was for him to talk about his mother.]}

FROM: ikari.shinji@cdc.org

She sounds like an amazing lady, Rogers-san. She must have been incredibly kind.

FROM: rogers.steve@cdc.org

She was.

[ Some parents, he would realize later, wouldn't have always been so kind about having to raise a kid like him. ]

FROM: rogers.steve@cdc.org

I guess I learned to be brave from her. Like I said, I was small. Got picked on a lot because of it. I wasn't very fast either, learned that I couldn't outrun them, so I stood my ground.

FROM: rogers.steve@cdc.org

I guess doing that for myself enough times made it easier to stand up on my own, when I knew things weren't right and someone had to do something.

Edited (html) 2015-05-05 08:09 (UTC)

FROM: ikari.shinji@cdc.org

Smaller than me?

FROM: ikari.shinji@cdc.org

I wish I had known what my mother was like. I at least have a picture of her now.

FROM: ikari.shinji@cdc.org

If there's one thing I've always been good at it's running.

FROM: ikari.shinji@cdc.org

Every time I try to be brave it backfires in my face.

FROM: ikari.shinji@cdc.org

...I want to be brave like you, Rogers-san.

FROM: rogers.steve@cdc.org

Probably about the same as you at your age. Didn't make it much past 5'4" even when I hit my growth spurt.

FROM: rogers.steve@cdc.org

Sometimes we get in our own way, can't see things clearly because we've only learned to see them one way all of our lives.

FROM: rogers.steve@cdc.org

You are brave, Shinji. You just need to learn to be less hard on yourself.

Edited 2015-05-16 12:51 (UTC)

FROM: ikari.shinji@cdc.org

It's hard not to be...

FROM: ikari.shinji@cdc.org

I don't like myself very much.

FROM: rogers.steve@cdc.org

Sounds like that's where you really need to start then.

[ Learning to like yourself. ]

FROM: ikari.shinji@cdc.org

I don't know how.

[ He's not really sure how to explain this one either, especially since Shinji's kind of in that age bracket that makes it even more difficult. ]

FROM: rogers.steve@cdc.org

Some people spend their whole lives not able to figure it out. You're still young, but I think that makes it harder.