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I had a pained expression on my face, not that I knew it at the time. I was thinking about how Meredith and Arthur didn’t seem to realize that this was their only chance to say goodbye to their father. That they hadn’t been able to prepare a final speech because there were countless conversations locked inside their chests that they’d no longer get to have. But if they weren’t careful, they’d keep on having those arguments forever; those talks would never die, and so they’d keep Thayer alive like that, at his worst. At his most profoundly disappointing.

I guess I felt sorry for them, the Wrens. Which you shouldn’t do. Lord knows they don’t need your sympathy. If you give a mouse a cookie… you know how that turns out.

But hey, a bad dad is a bad dad.