@Strawberry Fish That doesn't change anything. He's a grown adult who should be mature enough to understand why the ML was against the MC meeting with the blondie. I as a reader understand how he experienced something traumatic, but it was his own ignorance and lack of maturity that led to such an event occuring.
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