[ He doesn't even have to stop to think about it. He'd regret everything. If it were only about finding his father, that would be easy.
But he's pretty sure his mother is starting to rethink her support of him trying, after one too many nights she never got to sleep worrying about what he was doing. His sister has cried all over him that she doesn't want him to go and not come back like their dad. They need him around to do his part to keep the household together, with their never-great income taking a hit from his father's disappearance. There are too many places he's needed and not enough of him to be in all of them.
And he's had enough close calls that he knows they're justified in worrying about it. ]
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Yes.
[ He doesn't even have to stop to think about it. He'd regret everything. If it were only about finding his father, that would be easy.
But he's pretty sure his mother is starting to rethink her support of him trying, after one too many nights she never got to sleep worrying about what he was doing. His sister has cried all over him that she doesn't want him to go and not come back like their dad. They need him around to do his part to keep the household together, with their never-great income taking a hit from his father's disappearance. There are too many places he's needed and not enough of him to be in all of them.
And he's had enough close calls that he knows they're justified in worrying about it. ]