Michael was brave and smart. He stood up for me when I was younger and even as an adult, when I was trying to figure out my life. We had a really close relationship growing up - I felt safe with him.
Somehow, he knew I was destined for greater things.
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I miss him.
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Tell me about him? If you like. If you'd rather not... It's not like I was the most forthcoming about my sister.
But I'd like to hear.
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[She does take a drink from her glass first.]
Michael was brave and smart. He stood up for me when I was younger and even as an adult, when I was trying to figure out my life. We had a really close relationship growing up - I felt safe with him.
Somehow, he knew I was destined for greater things.
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[Smiling. She doesn't mean that to dismiss or minimize the importance of her brother's opinion.]
Not that I'm sure there weren't plenty of people who did.
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He was probably the first to realise it about me. Then I found some more people who believed in me after I signed up for the war effort.
Admittedly, that took longer than I’d like but a lot of people believed women shouldn’t have been at the front.
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[Natasha raises her glass in a sort of mock salute, a toast to all of the men out there who only saw a pretty face.]
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But of course neither of us will listen to them.
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Or the twentieth century.