He sighed. "I don't know," he said. "Nothing I do here will make up for Garfield's father's failures as a parent, or my own for that matter. Is it selfish to want to have the sort of relationship here that I wish I could have with my own son at home? I don't want Garfield to feel like he's just a substitute for the Adrien I know; that wouldn't be fair to either of them. But here... here I might actually be able to do it right. Assuming I don't find an entirely new way of bungling it, of course."
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