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I look in the mirror and see a person. This person puts on another person's face when she goes out...She prefers to be who she is, tries her own person out gradually. She fails most of the time. But the more she does it the better she feels. No more hiding behind the mask. Accept me as I am.

Tina. J. Richardson

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why cory didn’t call bradley when her mom died??? he said he is sorry in the last episode i get it, buuuut why he didn’t call her back then if he cares for her so much….

Because he was respecting the boundaries that she set pretty clear out with him, when she told him that she was going to Montana to be with Laura. She made it clear to him in Bradley's way, she wanted to be with Laura.

Also it was that time period...before her mom past, Bradley went public with her relationship with Laura on LIVE TV...so why would he want to interfere with that. It was safe to assume from that she was getting support and love from Laura, and if he reached out everyone would be accusing him of being weird and creepy and taking advantage of her in a vulnerable position. Also at that point it's safe to assume neither had spoken in months and she showed on The Morning that she was happy with Laura. He was also in the same headspace not long after being with Salma.

Even if it was good time to reach out to her and Bradley probably would have welcomed that. He probably felt best not to...

He was returning to the boundary of boss employee relationship, which he assumed was what she wanted. When Bradley said to him that they were "both out of their minds" that night looking for Hal....That's what CORY grasped from that....(I AM not defending him in general... he's far from perfect, but this is what they showed us on screen). So taking all of that in mind upon hearing about Bradley's mother's death, he thought that it was best to give Bradley her space, so he thought the flowers from UBA team was what would be more appropriate. That makes sense from work POV.

But he should have reached out. Completely. But that doesn't mean he doesn't care for her. THEY ARE THE WORST with communicating with each other. Would I have loved if he reached out? Absolutely. Am I sad he didn't? Completely.

But I was also relieved he kept this distance too, because there was too much that happened at that point.

BUT HE COMPLETELY CARES about her, that whole scene of her grieving........he was grieving with her. IT MIGHT NOT be what's societally accepted way of doing things.....but that's WHAT the scene is about...even if it seemed to go above many people's heads (as does many things with Cory Ellison but whatever). IT's also realistic in that time PERIOD does no one remember how distant we felt from so many people at that point..it was TRAUMATIC ON SO MANY FREAKING LEVELS.

HE cares about her a lot that HE COMMITTED a FELONY FOR HER to cover for her....any other workplace would let her take the fall . He went out in COVID filled spaces at the height of the pandemic looking for her brother. FROM WHAT we gathered he ensured that the leaking of private images of Bradley didn't come out.

HAS HE SCREWED UP so much absolutely, especially with many things regarding Bradley(I WISH THEY WOULD ADDRESS THE OUTTING Already...they keep hinting at it...BUT I WANT BRADLEY TO KNOW). BUT HE DOES CARE about her... that's what the piano scene essentially became about. It first started at his attempt to try and reach out to his mother, but Cory stopped immediately connecting with his mother, when he realised Bradley was upset. There was so much distance and awkwardness between them at this point, but even with that, he still was COMPLETELY concerned for Bradley and apologised for that, and while his mother got triggered by that stuff that occurred then(I would argue jealous too but whatever).

He just didn't know what to do to help Bradley, even when she said it was ok, he was very concerned for her and wanted to show that by apologising, (but even BRADLEY UNDERSTOOD WHY CORY HADN'T REACHED OUT TO HER when her mom died). On many levels in the piano scene, and in the past, there was distance between them and he simply wasn't sure what to do with regards Bradley.(Just like BRADLEY didn't know what to do when his mother was being abusive to him). Cory does care about her and he probably always will, but also he's trying to set some boundaries too for her sake as well as his.

THEY are both figuring stuff out and probably not expressing it in it what is deemed NORMAL HEALTHY WAYs, as result of again their own individual traumatic upbringing. But they do care about each other and, at risk of repeating myself probably always will.

[redleafhaiku]

Even the good Lord 

prefers forthright wickedness 

to phony virtue. 

—Red Leaf Haiku by © John Clark Helzer

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