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Ren: I want to give you something.
Ren: It's important to me. I want you to have it— to wear it.
Clementine: This is your grandmother's necklace. I— I can't wear this.
Ren: She told me one day, I'd give this to someone I... like.
Ren: I know she would have wanted you to wear it. And now that you've met her, it's yours.
Ren: I want to tell you about her. About my parents, if that’s okay.
Ren: I never knew happiness until my grandmother. She slowly grew from tolerating me to loving me.
Ren: I was unwanted and a burden on my mother and father. They travelled for work, so they were never home. I was alone.
Ren: So alone. I still remember that feeling. It's cold. And no matter how many layers you put on, you still shiver.
Ren: My mother's a Nihonese diplomat for Great Brixton and my father is chairman of Schuyler Financial Group. Both really important people.
Ren: I was forced to be homeschooled up until year ten, and because of that, I had no friends. No one to talk to.
Ren: My whole life I've been hidden away like some secret. Like I should be ashamed for even existing.
Ren: My father didn’t approve of my mother sending me here, or her strict and controlling rules. But he said nothing.
Ren: Mother wouldn't allow my grandmother to take me outside. One time, Obaachan did. She said she'd handle my mother if she ever found out.
Ren: And when she did find out, she and my father came to get me. I remember waving goodbye to Obaachan. She didn't wave back.
Ren: That's the last time I ever saw her. She passed a year later.
Clementine: I'm so sorry, Ren. I never would've thought...
Ren: That my parents are terrible? That I'm just one massive sob story?
Ren: That I'm jealous because you have a happy, loving home with parents that don't hate you?
Clementine: It's not your fault. Don't apologize for speaking about how you feel.
Clementine: I'm sorry I've always pressured you to tell me more about your family when you weren’t ready. That was wrong of me.
Ren: You didn't know. I didn't want you to.
