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Lele shrugged in response to Maia's sympathy. Life was, what it was, and there was very little she could do about it. She did wonder sometimes if losing some friends and family members meant that there was room for new people to let in, but, though it sounded practical in theory, in real life... once you lost a friend, you simply got lonelier. 

Therefore it was a relief that she could focus on someone else's problems and not the occasionally overwhelmingly empty feeling in her heart that she had learned to ignore and look past on daily basis. Children did sound like a lot, but something about in Maia's admittance of her failures as a mom made her think back to Larkspur. As flawed and cruel parent she had been, Lele had come to a rather compassionate conclusion that her mom was not a bad person per se. Just unfit. Just managing things in a way that worked for her. There was a slight chance that she could have been the right parent for a very particular character type. 

"You can't be right for everyone," she remarked. "Just because you fail to connect with someone doesn't mean there is fault in you. Or the other person. It's just not meant to be," she said.