"I'm trying to better so you don't worry so much..." but she was only sixteen, and that meant that what she thought would help didn't always...and she lost her temper sometimes. "I love you, you know. You're never going to get rid of me, just don't...worry so much." because one of these days he was going to make himself sick.

"That said...thanks a lot for coming. I'd hug you but my hands are still drippy."