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She can’t help but resent it, Sandra's careless, contrarian demeanor, but she can’t help but be drawn in by it either. For so long, she has— had— tried to take care of Pete, to make him let her, in the absence of his ability or willingness to do it himself. With that ripped from her, it’s only natural for her to try to redirect the instinct, only right that it should go to his child. Sandra is just the proxy for the time being, she supposes.
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It breaks through something in her in her emotional state, through some hardened and uncharitable piece of herself. Something clicks into place. Maggie cares for others so fiercely because some part of her has to, and every part of her wants to. And Sandra feels as though she’s never in her life wanted to care as badly as she does now, even as she also wants not to care quite badly.
Because if she cares, between Pete’s death and Maggie’s open grief and her own unborn child’s somewhat precarious future, she may just fall apart.