[In some ways, he liked the facilities better than some of the families he wound up with. But other families were marginally less terrible. None of them would have dreamed of allowing him an animal either way, though.
He looks at Shinji for a moment, quiet.]
I hope so. Ah, that he would like me, I mean. [It is a silly thing to want a now dead dog from a now dead world to like him but his emotions have always latched onto any idea of affection.] But I'm happy that it looks like Cocoa will be well-loved. Poor thing deserves a home.
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[In some ways, he liked the facilities better than some of the families he wound up with. But other families were marginally less terrible. None of them would have dreamed of allowing him an animal either way, though.
He looks at Shinji for a moment, quiet.]
I hope so. Ah, that he would like me, I mean. [It is a silly thing to want a now dead dog from a now dead world to like him but his emotions have always latched onto any idea of affection.] But I'm happy that it looks like Cocoa will be well-loved. Poor thing deserves a home.