The Truest Wisdom: Are The Facts Filed Below Your Conscious

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The Truest Wisdom
Are The Facts Filed Below Your Conscious
If possible, she liked to think she was getting better at treating her friends well.
She did not agree with everything they did and that was okay. Her best friend was someone she barely agreed with. It was either one or the other of them that did not think the other one was in their right mind, but it did not stop them from caring about each other. Then there were the others. No, she did not understand them at all (most of the time), but that was okay.
High school was a long time ago. The dreams they had made for themselves then had changed. So many things had changed. Yet what they were to each other did not.
It would be hard to change a bond that had been forged by death and kidnappings.
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Then there was Naoto.
When Naoto had finally stated he was he and there was no changing that, she wanted to be understanding. She had thought he was a man at first anyway – thinking of Naoto as a him should not take too long to reconcile.
But she could not understand why anyone would want to be a man. She had been out with many and it did not seem to make her boyfriends any better. Then there were her friends. It did not seem to do Kanji any favours at times and then there was Yosuke... Teddie took some of the best traits and worst traits and rolled them into a ridiculous ball. Then him...
Well, their leader was in a group all of his own.
Naoto was a man in mind and working on being one in body. She tried to be supportive. She could probably do better, but it was hard to think about it. Why did someone treat someone differently? She used to only think it was because of personalities, but the more and more she considered it she knew it stemmed from many many stereotypes.
Even to her friends.
She was not the only one. Not like that made it better.
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“So paid time off. I won 't get an offer like that anywhere else.”
“Only you or Naoto would use vacation time for more work,” Yukiko sighed as she fixed Chie 's packing job.
She almost protested, but when the only other example that came to mind was him she realized it was a lost cause. “I 'll call Rise and see if we can meet up for lunch sometimes while I 'm there,” she added.
It felt like Yukiko was trying to say that Chie did not have much a social life. She did, she did. It just was not the same thing if it was not Yukiko, Yosuke, Teddie, Kanji, Rise, Naoto... or him. Maybe she was trying too hard. She was getting sick of getting picked up by the wrong people. It was not like she could not connect with them.
Even if they could never truly understand her. She could not tell them about what had happened. It was a secret. A secret that meant everything to her. Maybe she had to understand first. It was a process. It was a good thing. Chie did not mind, this was another process of self-discovery. Figuring oneself out was not a one-time thing. It was something you had to do your entire life.
Chie was prepared for that. It was what they had fought to be able to do: to understand themselves and change the

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