I don't know how to use a bathroom! [It seems important to reassure her? Like he knows in theory he just hasn't used one since he was about five so.] But, um. I hope he does? I worry about him feeling tethered to me but... yeah.
[But, more important than his inability to handle relationships:]
Um! I, um... is it... okay if I continue to think of you as family? I know the situation is actually a little more convoluted than either of us understood it to be when we were writing our letters but... [Jake tries to gesture but just raises his hand a little before it drops.] I dunno. It doesn't change that you're family to me I guess.
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[But, more important than his inability to handle relationships:]
Um! I, um... is it... okay if I continue to think of you as family? I know the situation is actually a little more convoluted than either of us understood it to be when we were writing our letters but... [Jake tries to gesture but just raises his hand a little before it drops.] I dunno. It doesn't change that you're family to me I guess.