Considering that kept me going some time back? No, not anymore. I would have, but the odds are I wouldn't be able to stop myself from going through the motions, and that would just be a tremendous waste. And really, after everything, Ernesta can have it. Mother always wanted to adopt her instead anyway.

[It's more spiteful than resigned. Sour grapes or serious thought, whichever it is, it's taken a long time to get to.]

If nothing there appreciates what I was supposed to be, then I'll make something of myself elsewhere.