"You shall love your crooked neighbour with your crooked heart,"
– As I Walked Out One Evening
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When I was little, my mom used to tell me that sometimes the only way to know whether you could trust someone was by just trusting them. Of course that doesn't mean jumping in some stranger's van with the promise of candy and unicorns, but rather if someone saves your life, infamous super villain or not, you should probably give them a chance to explain themselves. Unfortunately, just trusting someone often leads to the knocking-the-breath-out-of-you kind of shock that you really wouldn't have felt if you hadn't stumbled forth so blindly only to get punched in the gut by reality.
It's like when you're hugging someone. You don't need to check every few seconds to make sure that they're s
