Julia didn't see eye-to-eye with Augustus on several things, namely, her forced marriage and the fact that he cared too much about what the nobility thought, but that didn't mean she didn't care about him. Maybe it was the spirit of the younger Julia that made her so attached. Or maybe it was because he was one of the wisest and most discerning people she had ever met, either in the past or in the modern era.
He was soft and yielding when he wanted to be, but firm and immovable when he needed to be strong. He could be whatever his people needed but never according to his own desires. She respected that the way she admired a good altruistic streak in anyone. And in some ways, she wished - she wished that she wanted to be like that, giving and good an
