| STEPMOTHER (OFF):“I don't know how to deal with that child.”
FATHER (OFF):“What's this? You, a doctor, getting discouraged?
It isn't like you.”
STEPMOTHER (OFF):“Even doctors are human, as I have mentioned before.”
FATHER (OFF):“But a woman like you having trouble with a child...”
STEPMOTHER (OFF):“She's oddly mature,
and there's a sense of vigilant and absolute rejection.
It scares me sometimes.
Haven't you ever felt that way, dear?”
FATHER (OFF):“No.
Anyway, you're Asuka's mother now.”
STEPMOTHER (OFF):“But before that, I first became your wife.”
FATHER (OFF):“You became both at the same time.”
STEPMOTHER (OFF):“Yes, from a social standpoint, that's true.
But you can never stop being that child's father,
whereas I can quit being her mother at any time.”
FATHER (OFF):“True enough.”
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