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Adeline watched Eli as he struggled to speak. She could see the wheels spinning, and she was pretty sure smoke was about to spew from his ears.
But it gave her the answer she needed.
Eli could no longer differentiate himself from Benjamin, and he didn’t know how to answer a question as simple as who he was anymore.
But then his gaze met hers, and she could tell there had been a shift. And his accent dropped. “My mom passed away right before I got my first acting job. I was only twelve at the time, but she was the one who always believed I could do it, even when no one else did.”
Oh. Things were getting real. Adeline hadn’t meant that he’d need to bare his soul to prove that he was himself. She hoped he hadn’t felt pressured into it.
“I’m sure she’s proud of you,” she said, not kno
