Broken Boulder Allow Me To Mansplain "Puns" To You, Since Hillary Clinton Didn't

her 'no' earns a frown, delight reaching down to bump her with his nose questioningly. he doesn't believe it for a second, of course, any more than he'd believe it from mali or solomon. (or maybe he's projecting, and the grief is all his, unearned, a stone in his belly for-ever).

"it's okay if you do," he tells her, bracing for her reaction, "i mean -- i do, you know?" maybe if he tells her that -- if he's honest -- maybe she'll be honest with him, too, or at least understand a little better.