Your children are beautiful. I see you in them, you know, even if you are [...] a once-removed ? father?
No, that isn't the word. Well, you know how I mean: you are there in them.
And also, your son is cheating. I like him already.
[...]
I am so sorry for what your sister-in-law has done, but Nova, no matter what has happened, you should not call your sister your 'brother-who [...]
Ah, no!
Forgive me, I misunderstood!
[...]
Dreadfully. I see. Brother-who-was.
Oh, Vevay, I am sorry.
[...]
Ukraine is not tolerant. I do not say this because I agree with the public consensus, but because I am unused to speaking directly of such things. But here is what I know: to refuse to love, to accept, to treat equally a brother as one would treat a sister -
To reject a loved one because they are not what you expected.
He lost something precious in refusing you. All the beauty in you; the father you are. The brother you could have been. The husband you were to your now-friend. The force of nature whose words soothe, are a balm to the soul.
Better a man than any I have met, and I have met many.
How much there would be to lose in turning you away.
Foolish.
[...]
Thank you for trusting me. I [...] really never would have known from your photos any such history. It is a secret you could have kept and I would have been [...] how is it.
'None the wiser'? It means much, to be trusted so.
2/3
No, that isn't the word. Well, you know how I mean: you are there in them.
And also, your son is cheating. I like him already.
[...]
I am so sorry for what your sister-in-law has done, but Nova, no matter what has happened, you should not call your sister your 'brother-who [...]
Ah, no!
Forgive me, I misunderstood!
[...]
Dreadfully. I see. Brother-who-was.
Oh, Vevay, I am sorry.
[...]
Ukraine is not tolerant. I do not say this because I agree with the public consensus, but because I am unused to speaking directly of such things. But here is what I know: to refuse to love, to accept, to treat equally a brother as one would treat a sister -
To reject a loved one because they are not what you expected.
He lost something precious in refusing you. All the beauty in you; the father you are. The brother you could have been. The husband you were to your now-friend. The force of nature whose words soothe, are a balm to the soul.
Better a man than any I have met, and I have met many.
How much there would be to lose in turning you away.
Foolish.
[...]
Thank you for trusting me. I [...] really never would have known from your photos any such history. It is a secret you could have kept and I would have been [...] how is it.
'None the wiser'? It means much, to be trusted so.