[ okay that makes sense. It's a vague source of frustration on his side, because Tony long ago learned to associate the physical with the emotional on an interchangeable scale, with things one can directly point to being the things that allow one to gauge a relationship. People connect to each other with wires and pathways just like anything else, it's just that the wires are physical intimacy and the pathways are random bestowals of generosity. So when she, or anyone else, doesn't take something, it's basically just a refusal of his own feelings. Which is like, perfect, right. They're both so screwed up sometimes. ] There are sequences way more interesting than that one, please, it's almost prosaic.
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