[ Her smile is faint and a little weary, but it's a smile nonetheless. ]
I can't pretend to know what you've done or what's happened to you. But I do know that if you were anywhere close to as loathsome or as worthless as you think yourself, then you wouldn't be sitting here with me, insisting that you deserve to suffer, or that your sins are too great to repent from.
You knew what you were doing was wrong. You regret it and you've given so much of yourself to this country and its people to make up for that. You're not half the man I knew – you're twice that, and more besides.
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[ Her smile is faint and a little weary, but it's a smile nonetheless. ]
I can't pretend to know what you've done or what's happened to you. But I do know that if you were anywhere close to as loathsome or as worthless as you think yourself, then you wouldn't be sitting here with me, insisting that you deserve to suffer, or that your sins are too great to repent from.
You knew what you were doing was wrong. You regret it and you've given so much of yourself to this country and its people to make up for that. You're not half the man I knew – you're twice that, and more besides.