"I really don't know what "I love you" means. I think it means "Don't leave me here alone."
"I finally made friends with my father when I entered my twenties. We had so little in common when I was a boy, and I am certain I had been a disappointment to him. He did not ask for a child with a book, off in its own world. He wanted a son who did what he had done; swam and boxed and played rugby, and drove cars at speed with abandon and joy, but that was not what he wound up with."
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Source: Dream Country (The Sandman, Book 3). Book sub-series by Neil Gaiman, July – October 1990.
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